‘Heat dome’ over eastern US sends electricity prices soaring
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Martha Muir, Michael Taffe
2d ago· 2 min readNews
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bsky‘Heat dome’ over eastern US sends electricity prices soaringft.trib.alMore than 150,000 households left without power as temperatures near 40C strain utility grids
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