Blackout: Reinventing The Grid
Sneak Peek: Blackout!
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The animated trailer for the investigative series Blackout: Reinventing The Grid!
Inside Energy (https://insideenergy.org/series/blackout-reinventing-the-grid/page/2/)
We are increasingly reliant on electricity, supplied by the grid, for every aspect of modern life. The infrastructure is dated and challenged by increasing power needs, new modes of power generation as well as cyber attacks and solar storms. Inside Energy has launched a multi-part investigative series exploring what’s wrong with the grid and what needs to be done to meet 21st century power needs.
The animated trailer for the investigative series Blackout: Reinventing The Grid!
Denmark gets some 40 percent of its power from wind energy, but it’s aiming for even more—going fully renewable by 2030. In order to do that, it’s going to have to shake up the traditional relationship between electricity supply and demand, and the country is looking to a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea for guidance.
Fort Collins Utilities is working against a deadline to build the utility of the future: a utility that offers choice, efficiency, and smart meter data. (Blackout: Reinventing the Grid 5)
Coal has long been the bedrock of our electric grid. Could environmental regulations threaten the reliability of that system? Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports in our latest installment of Blackout: Reinventing the Grid.
In 2009, President Obama promised to modernize the electric grid, using stimulus money. The new power grid would be smart and efficient, bringing the tech revolution to electricity. It would incorporate more renewable energy. It would have the ability to fix blackouts more quickly. And, it would save customers a whole lot of money. So whatever happened to that plan? (Blackout: Reinventing the Grid #3)
Public knowledge about the grid is pretty limited and that limits the possibilities for modernization. (Blackout: Reinventing the Grid #2)
If you could peer behind an electrical plug in your house, you’d find a massive network of transmission lines and power plants and a whole army of people bringing power to the socket in real-time, 24 hours a day. It’s the largest machine in the world: the power grid. Most of the time it operates invisibly, in the background, but when it fails, it often does so memorably. To most people, those outages seem like isolated events, but when you look at the trend, they’re not. (Blackout: Reinventing the Grid #1)