Strengthening the Grid, Ten Years Later
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Ten years ago this week, a massive electrical blackout struck the northeastern U.S. and parts of Canada, affecting some 55 million people. IEEE Spectrum journalist Bill Sweet describes the causes of the outage and how the electrical grid has changed since the 2003 failure.
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William Sweet is managing editor of the IEEE Smart Grid newsletter, and editor and lead contributor of IEEE Spectrum magazine’s EnergyWise newsletter and blog in New York, New York.
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