Why is America’s electric grid so fragile?
Storm clouds forming above a Power line in Illinois. Reginald Hardwick/IPM News
A recent derecho storm in Illinois is another example of America’s outdated electric grid failing to remain stable, resulting in hundreds of thousands of residents losing power for several days. The 21st Show asked Gretchen Bakke, the author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future why America’s electric grid is easily suspectable to outages and what new technologies should be implemented to modernize the outdated infrastructure.
GUESTS:
Gretchen Bakke
Heisenberg Research Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin
Author: "The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future"