20.500.12556/RUL-184704 Visualising the E-Armageddon scenario a comparative assessment of the social consequences of major power outages As global dependence on electricity increases, alongside rising threats from natural disasters and hostile actors such as military, intelligence, criminal, and terrorist entities, the risk of large-scale, prolonged power outages is intensifying. This paper addresses a gap in the literature by (1) reviewing the main concepts of major power outages, (2) identifying numerous cases, and (3) extracting their typical societal and cross-sectoral consequences. Findings on similarities and differences from 28 analysed cases confirm that major and prolonged electric power outages are likely to cause serious, both predictable and unpredictable, societal and cross-sectoral consequences, such as human casualties, significant financial losses, and disruption, delay, or cessation of activities in the following sectors: information and telecommunications, transport, water, food, finance, health, security, public administration, industrial production, leisure activities, and many other areas (households, public lighting, electric locks, elevators, crematoria). The Achilles' heel in such scenarios is the availability and quality of electric power generators and related fuel supplies during periods of drastic demand by many critical societal actors. electric power blackout critical infrastructure risk security threat damage energy Javna infrastruktura Energetika true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-07-14 07:53:02 2026-07-14 07:53:10 2026-07-15 04:06:02 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 1-11 art. no. 100871 Vol. 54 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-07-11 351.78:620.9 1874-5482 10.1016/j.ijcip.2026.100871 284638467 https://www-sciencedirect-com.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/science/article/pii/S1874548226000430?via%3Dihub 1 20c9d939-7f48-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=237659 RAZ_Prezelj_Iztok_2026.pdf RAZ_Prezelj_Iztok_2026.pdf 1 BFD1C86D67C8E196B453483EDD65F8AF ef746ae01676d11b593193d337204927fa1a0b90e1d3f0fbe463dcfa37a1186f 72bebe5a-7f48-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=237660 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0