(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s latest Electric Service Reliability Report, in 2024, Pennsylvania experienced 71 “reportable outage events”, the highest number recorded in more than 30 years. The challenges that are experienced through these “reportable outage events” are the impacts of a power grid that is aging, damage related to vegetation and storms that are severe. These events made a disruption of services for electricity across Pennsylvania affecting business and residents and the 71 “reportable outage events” seen in Pennsylvania is 22 more than the 49 seen in Pennsylvania in 2023. According to a release from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, 1.67 million people in Pennsylvania lost power during some point in 2023 compared to a bigger number of over 2.8 million people losing power in Pennsylvania during some point in 2024.