BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 14, 2022
Large-scale power outages are becoming more common across the country and in Maine as extreme weather, stoked by a warming climate, knocks out electricity to wider swaths of people. Between 2000 and 2021 some 83 percent of reported major outages in the U.S. were attributed to weather-related events. Outages have been increasing in Maine, with 12 alone reported in 2020, more than any year in the past two decades. Maine ranks 19th among U.S. states in its number of power outages related to weather.