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U.S. electricity blackouts skyrocketing
Experts on the nation’s electricity system point to a frighteningly steep increase in non-disaster-related outages affecting at least 50,000 consumers.
During the past two decades, such blackouts have increased 124 percent — up from 41 blackouts between 1991 and 1995, to 92 between 2001 and 2005, according to research at the University of Minnesota.
In the most recently analyzed data available, utilities reported 36 such outages in 2006 alone.
“It’s hard to imagine how anyone could believe that — in the United States — we should learn to cope with blackouts,” said University of Minnesota Professor Massoud Amin, a leading expert on the U.S. electricity grid.
Amin supports construction of a nationwide “smart grid” that would avert blackouts and save billions of dollars in wasted electricity.
2 Comments on "U.S. electricity blackouts skyrocketing"
kenz300 on Wed, 11th Aug 2010 8:06 am
It is time to support a smart grid with
distributed alternative energy.
We need to support alternative energy
and the transition to sustainable energy
sources.
Our economic security and our national security
depend on it.
Andy R on Wed, 11th Aug 2010 8:21 pm
Duncan predicted this when formulating his Olduvai (transient pulse)theory. It’s just not as sharp as he predicted, like the timeline will be stretched more in the future. Something like 150-180 years for industrial civilization instead of 100.