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It's Not Just Texas. The Entire Energy Grid Needs An Upgrade For Extreme Weather
The Texas blackout is a reminder that climate-driven extreme weather stresses the U.S.'s power system in many ways. Much is needed to harden the grid for the future as the number of outages increase.
Source: www.npr.org
Holy cost of deferred innovation. The price of needed transmission needed in the United States by 2050 could cost up to $600 billion.
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