Pakistan’s power outage on January 23, 2023

Payne Institute Earth Observation Group researcher Tilottama Ghosh and Director Christopher Elvidge write about how millions of people in Pakistan were reported to be without electric power on during the day on Monday, January 23, 2023 when electricity was turned off Sunday night to conserve energy. The next morning, technicians were unable to restart the system in the dawn hours and the power remained off during much of the day on January 23.  January 24, 2023.