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Can certain smart grid technologies make power outages (or at least their duration) a thing of the past?

April 26, 2017certain duration Grid outages past power SMART technologies thing

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Can certain smart grid technologies make power outages (or at least their duration) a thing of the past?

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The 2003 blackout that plunged an estimated 50 million people on the East Coast of the U.S. into darkness was caused by a tree (and a series of cascading failures along a number of transmission and distribution grids that were largely due to the actions taken by automatic protective controls).