Power has been restored on Wednesday after a widespread power outage affected thousands of people on Christmas Eve. Southern California Edison said a transformer failure Tuesday caused a major power ...

Marissa Wenzke is a journalist based in Los Angeles. She has a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Santa Barbara and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School. More than 20,000 households ...

A transformer failure caused a power outage in the Downey and Norwalk areas, affecting tens of thousands of customers on Christmas Eve. Outages were reported in Downey at 1:35 p.m. affecting 24,187 ...

A transformer failure on Chicago's Northwest Side caused several thousand residents to lose power overnight as temperatures struggled to dip below 80 degrees. The outage happened in the city's Belmont ...

The June 2025 outage, caused by a failure at the Germantown substation near Littlestown, lasted for several days and impacted thousands of customers. The need for the new substation was identified in ...

Transformers are critical assets, and any failure can have severe and long-lasting consequences. In the most extreme cases, a transformer failure caused by a lack of proper maintenance can result in ...