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The Power Grid Problem

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NPR ([email protected])
Published
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Episode Link
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/1254614614/weather-electricity-outage-electric-grid

The U.S.'s power grid — a nearly 100-year-old network of electrical circuits — is facing increased demand and weather-related stress. What will it take to modernize? We interrogate that question today with the help of Anjan Bose, an electrical engineer at Washington State University.

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