10 million Europeans lose power due to one downed wire

Ten million Europeans lost electricity yesterday, and it appears that the cascading failure was precipitated by shutting down a single power-line in Germany.

The company says systems may have become overloaded after a high-voltage transmission line was shut down over a river to let a ship pass.

Resulting power outages affected as many as ten million people in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium and Spain.

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(via Beyond the Beyond)