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Keeping the lights on during extreme cold snaps takes investments and upgrades

  • Written by Zhaoyu Wang, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University
Heavy, wet snow can knock down tree limbs -- and power lines.AP Photo/Bill Sikes

Polar vortexes. Hurricanes. Wildfires.

With climate change making extreme weather events more frequent and intense, it is getting harder to keep the lights on and HVAC systems running.

As a power system researcher, I believe utilities need to get better at withstanding...

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