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The Dominican Republic experienced a nationwide blackout caused by a failure in the electricity transmission system, linked to issues at a substation and shutdowns at major power plants, leading to chaos and evacuations in the capital, Santo Domingo, amid ongoing smaller outages and recent hurricane impacts.
California lawmakers have approved a comprehensive energy package that includes funding for labor and wildfire prevention, the expansion of a Western electricity grid, and a significant replenishment of the wildfire fund, with some concerns from Central Valley representatives about agricultural funding cuts.
Several cities in northern China broke heat records for June this week, with temperatures straining the country's electricity supplies and leading authorities to hold mock emergency drills. The persistent heat has already put the country's power grid operators on high alert, with some cities in the south warning firms and people to curb usage. China's National Energy Administration staged a power emergency drill on the state grid's East China network, simulating a power surge and outage to prepare early warning and power management mechanisms.