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Blackouts Are Becoming the Norm—Can the U.S. Power Grid Be Saved?

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Last week, a monkey snuck into a substation in Sri Lanka and knocked out power, plunging the island nation into darkness that lasted six hours. The major blackout forced medical facilities and water purification plants in the country to turn to backup generators to maintain critical operations while traffic was gridlocked because traffic lights were not functioning. Unlike many developing nations, Sri Lanka has ample installed power generation c…

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Blackouts Are Becoming the Norm—Can the U.S. Power Grid Be Saved?

Last week, a monkey snuck into a substation in Sri Lanka and knocked out power, plunging the island nation into darkness that lasted six hours. The major blackout forced medical facilities and water purification plants in the country to turn to backup generators to maintain critical operations while traffic was gridlocked because traffic lights were not functioning. Unlike many developing nations, Sri Lanka has ample installed power generation c…

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U.S. Power Grids are Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

When extreme weather and natural disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes descend on a region, the immediate concern is typically damage from the event itself. But the power outages that often accompany such events can be dangerous as well. The recent Los Angeles wildfires left hundreds of thousands of residents without power, and Hurricane Helene caused more than 5 million customers in the Southeast to lose power last fall. A new study publis…

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Oil Price broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Friday, February 21, 2025.
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