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Keeping the electricity grid running – 4 essential reads

  • Written by Jeff Inglis, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation US
A man reads the newspaper by flashlight during the Northeast Blackout in August 2003.AP Photo/Joe Kohen

On Aug. 14, 2003, a software bug contributed to a blackout that left 50 million people across nine U.S. northeastern states and a Canadian province without power. The outage lasted for as long as four days, with rolling blackouts in some areas...

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