US Capitol power plant under evacuation order per USCP announcement here in Capitol, Bloomberg's Wasson writes; all clear has now been issued

US Capitol power plant under evacuation order per USCP announcement here in Capitol, Bloomberg's Wasson writes; all clear has now been issued.

Evacuation orders around the Capitol complex have historically fallen into two buckets: security scares, such as airspace incursions, suspicious packages, or unattended vehicles, and infrastructure incidents, such as fires or mechanical failures at the Capitol power plant, which supplies heating and cooling to the complex rather than grid power. The former has on occasion produced brief safe-haven flickers in Treasuries and equities when the cause was ambiguous; the latter has been a non-event for markets almost without exception. The sequence in past episodes is consistent: initial headline, evacuation, all-clear within a short window, no lasting repricing. With the all-clear already issued, the information content is exhausted unless follow-up reporting attributes the order to a security threat rather than a plant malfunction. The power plant itself is a utilities facility with no bearing on energy supply or wholesale power markets, despite the tag. Worth noting only whether wire follow-ups characterise the trigger; absent that, the episode closes here.