Southwest Blackout Power Outages on the Rise

Southwest Blackout Power Outages on the Rise
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

EnergyNow News offers a compelling look at U.S. power outages – their cause, their cost, and new technologies that are being developed to reduce an enormous problem for U.S. utilities, including sensors.

“The system is not modern. The number of smaller outages has doubled, from 149 in the first part of the decade, to 349 by 2009, costing up to $180 billion a year.

The biggest culprit – aging equipment… we can’t recover quickly enough because we don’t have good information about the situation.” – Thalia Assuras, EnergyNow News, September 9, 2011

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