Vast Swath of US at Risk of Summer Blackouts, Regulator Warns May 19, 2022 By Naureen Malik and David R. Baker A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this...
Texas Deep Freeze Could Cost $90 Billion in Losses, Modeler Says February 25, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan Texas’s deep freeze and power outages last week could cost as much as $90 billion in losses, and most of...
There’s No Easy Way to End California’s Bedeviling Blackouts November 4, 2019 By David R. Baker California residents who were incredulous after the head of PG&E Corp. signaled a decade more of blackouts face an unnerving...
Power and Tech Giants Fight Over Airwaves Space in the U.S. August 6, 2019 By Millicent Dent and Stephen Cunningham As tropical storm Barry roared ashore in Louisiana last month, Entergy Corp. monitored the electric grid using airwaves that have...
ConEd Starts to Shed Light on Why NYC Got Plunged Into the Dark July 16, 2019 By Will Wade and David Baker It started with a broken cable. Sometime before 6:47 p.m. on Saturday, a 13,000-volt underground power line at New York...
U.S. Power Grid Needs Cybersecurity Protection December 5, 2011 The threat of cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid should be dealt with by a single federal agency, not the...