
BOSTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The largest U.S. regional electric grid on Tuesday reported nearly 18 gigawatts of power plant outages, leaving a region of 67 million people with thin power supplies amid an extended bout of frigid weather.
The PJM Interconnection reported that most of the generation outages are due to power plants being forced offline amid freezing weather and constricted supplies of natural gas for the region.