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Summer blackouts are increasing in the US

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The US has dealt with 60 percent more weather-related outages during warmer months over the past decade than it did during the 2000s .

Climate change supercharges disasters like storms and wildfires that often cut off power.

Soaring demand for air conditioning also stresses out the grid, which can leave people without life-saving cooling.