Can American utilities avoid summer blackouts?
Eventually, yes. But the next few months look dicey
“THIS IS THE highest-risk cautionary warning.” That is how John Moura, an official at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) recently described the dangers facing America’s power grid this summer. In May the expert group predicted an unusually scorching one in the west and south-west, with a worsening drought and wildfires. This witch’s brew of forces, it warned, threatens a power grid that is already “vulnerable”.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Grid luck”
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