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Vast Swath of U.S. at Risk of Summer Blackouts, Regulator Warns

A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this summer as heat, drought, shuttered power plants and supply-chain woes strain the electric grid. Power ...

Multiple Disasters Converge Simultaneously in California

Californians are in their sixth month of sheltering in place because of a pandemic that's killed more than 11,000 residents. Now a new crisis — hundreds of wildfires — is forcing people to ...

Wildfires, Blackouts and Business Interruption in Today’s California

It was only expected to happen a couple times a year -- and just as a last resort. That's what utility giant PG&E Corp. originally said 13 months ago when it outlined plans to stage mass ...

New Tool to Shed Light on Costs of Blackouts

Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) and The Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER). (HSB) have formed an alliance to provide a product that assesses blackout risk in the United States. ...

Researchers Develop Device to Mitigate Blackouts, Prevent Equipment Damage

A local power failure in Ohio ten years ago caused a series of cascading power failures that resulted in a massive blackout that affected 50 million people and caused billions of dollars in damage ...