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The Grid: Everyone Knows The Word – Few Understand It

The Grid: Everyone Knows The Word – Few Understand It

By Dr. Jay Lehr ~ When we flip the switch, the lights come on without anyone thinking about it. This has only been true for the last 100 years in metropolitan areas, and for only about 80 in rural areas with the enactment of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. In 1935, only 25 percent of rural homes in the United States had electricity, and there are people alive today who grew up without it.…

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New Study On Electricity Grid Suggests The Need For Market Reforms

New Study On Electricity Grid Suggests The Need For Market Reforms

By Nicolas Loris ~ The Department of Energy recently released its much-anticipated report on electricity markets and grid reliability. Much like the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match, the main event was compelling but completely overhyped. But despite the unnecessary politicization, the study does provide useful information that federal and state policymakers should leverage to…

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Regional Power Grids Face Three Dangerous Threats

Regional Power Grids Face Three Dangerous Threats

Cyber and physical attacks — and the dangerous green energy balancing act By Larry Bell ~ Foreign and homegrown cyber and physical attacks upon America’s sprawling, complex, and fragile infrastructure of power lines and control stations were never contemplated throughout the system’s more than century-long creation. Nevertheless, coordinated assaults upon a small number of these soft targets can…

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Lights Out: Has Ted Koppel Become A 'Rightwing' Survivalist?

Lights Out: Has Ted Koppel Become A ‘Rightwing’ Survivalist?

By P.J. Gladnick ~ Remember when, not so long ago, much of the Mainstream Media was mocking people who stocked up on emergency supplies (“preppers”) in case of a catastrophe as a bunch of “rightwing” survivalist kooks wearing tinfoil hats? Well, it now appears that Ted Koppel is wearing a tinfoil hat because he is warning about a possible apocalyptic catastrophe that could knock out the nation’s…

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