Blackout Risk Rises for 67 Million as Heat Wave Pushes America’s Largest Power Grid Into Emergency Conditions
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September 2, 2026
Federal officials authorized last-resort backup generation as extreme heat pushed PJM and MISO toward record electricity demand, raising the risk of rotating outages across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.