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>>11935938
Here ya go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout

tl;dr the entire state of South Australia, 1.5 million people, lost electrical power after a large windstorm resulted in a cascade of improbable electrical interconnector failures, resulting in all the local power stations constantly tripping out and a day long struggle to restore power. Emergency generators at hospitals ran out of fuel due to the length of the cut, cryogenic facilities lost all their samples, and smelters were out of action for months after everything cooled down. Cue panic as the authorities desperately try to get mothballed gas power stations back up and running.

Power supply here has always been shockingly bad by first world standards, but this was the biggest fuck up in living memory. Something good came of it though with Elon Musk building his big battery here as a proof of concept. I can't actually remember the last time we had any blackouts or brownouts since the battery came online.