Blackout: Reinventing The Grid
Inside Energy Reads: How ‘Rooftop Solar’ Became ‘Private Solar’
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An Energywire story explains how the electricity industry is changing the way it talks about who they are and what they do.
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Gridlocked: Outside/In Podcast
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What if everything you thought you knew about energy was exactly backwards? What if the way that we currently do electricity is actually the most expensive option, and all of that fancy “clean-tech” and “green-tech” actually the cheapest option? Listen to the Outside/In podcast episode GRIDLOCKED for answers.
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Inside Energy Reads: What Happened To NRG Energy?
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EnergyWire digs into the financial and cultural struggles at green energy pioneer NRG Energy in the wake of their pullback from renewables.
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No More Blackouts: How New York Is Protecting The Power Grid
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With power outages on the rise, and more extreme weather events, the U.S. electrical grid is showing its age and vulnerability. New York state is pushing to upgrade its grid and one project is a statewide competition to develop community microgrids.
Blackout: Reinventing The Grid
Is Coal Key To Keeping The Lights On?
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New environmental regulations likely mean a shift away from coal to renewables and natural gas. But some say a significant reduction in coal-generated electricity would threaten this nation with brownouts and blackouts. Inside Energy investigates that claim.
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Hacking The Grid: Rural Colorado And The Realities Of Cybersecurity
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Cybersecurity experts like to divide the world into two categories: Those who have been hacked, and those who have been hacked but just don’t know it yet. As the electric grid gets digitized, it becomes increasingly vulnerable to hackers. We know hackers are getting onto the grid. So how big of a threat do they really pose?
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We Can Send A Probe To Pluto, But Energy Storage Remains Elusive
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Energy storage is expensive and experimental. When will it be worth it? The answers are ‘stored’ in this story by Leigh Paterson.
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What A Storm 93 Million Miles Away Means For Your Power
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Our most important piece of infrastructure–the grid–is also the most vulnerable to an unpredictable, strange kind of weather. Severe solar storms could knock out power to millions of Americans. And critics say new regulations don’t go far enough to protect the grid.
Blackout: Reinventing The Grid
Military Marches Forward With Microgrids
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The aging United States electricity grid is facing an increasing number of threats, ranging from severe weather events to solar flares to cyber terrorism. It’s something the U.S. military is taking seriously, helping lead the way in the development of smaller and more secure grids – known as microgrids.
