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‘Heat dome’ over eastern US sends electricity prices soaring

Financial Times · Jul 2, 2026, 11:04 PM · Also reported by 2 other sources

More than 150,000 households left without power as temperatures near 40C strain utility grids

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‘Heat dome’ over eastern US sends electricity prices soaring

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