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173 - Harnessing Data to Fortify Our Power Grids

Insider's Guide to Energy

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Exploring the Unity and Challenges of Power Grid Resilience and Reliability

The power grid is essentially seen as one unified entity in terms of its operation and assets, making solutions for resilience consistent regardless of geography. However, the grid was historically designed more for reliability than resilience, focused on providing power under normal circumstances rather than extreme weather events. Utility regulations prioritize metrics related to reliability, often excluding major event day outages from reports, leading to a discrepancy between managing everyday outages and addressing the majority of outages caused by extreme weather conditions.

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