Recent Blackout Highlights Nation's Aging Electricity Grid
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 12:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Experts say the cascading blackout that put millions of Westerners in the dark last week was no surprise: Major power outages have more than doubled in the last decade."This is just evidence that we need a smarter, better, more secure system," said Massoud Amin, director of the Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota, who has analyzed federal data on the reliability of the nation's electric grid. [More]
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