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The 49ers conducted tests on the nearby substation and found exposure levels far below unsafe thresholds, calling the concerns a “big nothing burger.” They emphasized player and staff safety, announced planned upgrades to hydro facilities and extra therapy staff, and indicated momentum in contract talks with left tackle Trent Williams.
BBC Verify Live reports a fire at the Morozovskaya substation in Berdyansk has caused a widespread outage in the occupied city and surrounding areas, with Berdyansk, Vasylivka and Prymorsk left without electricity. The outage comes amid ongoing Russian strikes that have disrupted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and left Kyiv’s residents facing -15°C temperatures, while Zelensky has declared an energy emergency as winter intensifies the power crisis.
A man has been accused of planning to use a drone equipped with explosives to attack a substation, according to U.S. authorities. This incident highlights ongoing security concerns regarding the use of drones in potential attacks on critical infrastructure.
Thousands of homes and businesses in East Providence, Rhode Island, had their power restored after a substation went down, leaving over 14,000 customers without electricity. Rhode Island Energy responded and made repairs, and all of the city's schools remained in operation with no plans for early dismissal.
More than 2,300 customers in Omaha experienced a power outage on Monday morning, affecting an area from Harrison to I streets and 116th to 132nd streets. Omaha Public Power District troubleshooters are still investigating the cause of the outage, but power has been restored to over 1,500 people after workers closed a breaker at a substation that feeds the circuit.
Over 17,000 customers in Brunswick County, primarily in Oak Island and St. James areas, are without power due to an equipment failure at a substation. The Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation estimates power to be restored by around 12:30 p.m.
The first monopile foundation has been installed at South Fork Wind, New York's first offshore wind farm, to support the project's offshore substation. The substation, designed and built by Kiewit Offshore Services, will sit on the monopile foundation and will be installed offshore by New York union workers. The project remains on track to become the first US utility-scale offshore wind farm to be completed in federal waters when it begins operations by the end of this year.
A snake crawled into one of the substations, causing a power outage that affected roughly 16,000 people in east and southeast Austin. The outages had dwindled to 142 total customers by 5:30 p.m. and were mostly resolved by 7 p.m. Five active outages were affecting six customers.