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Michigan Climate Energy Infrastructure Utilities 

The Anatomy of a Power Outage in Michigan

March 5, 2023March 6, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments voltage, michigan power outages, miso, PJM, power grid, power lines, power outage, power outages, public utilities, utilities, utility company, infrastructure, consumers outage, consumers outages, DTE, DTE Energy, dte outage, dte power outage, Consumers Energy, ERCOT, ercot disaster, february 2022 ice storm michigan

The power went out. Then the ice melted. A few days later, the snow came, and the power went out– again. Now that the snow is gone, what’s next?

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Aerial view from a drone looking straight down at high-voltage power transmission infrastructure, some sort of substation or transformer assembly, and a part of the power grid.
Energy Efficiency Energy 

This Doesn’t Happen In A Normal Climate– Or Power Grid

February 15, 2021February 18, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments power grid, microgrid, mid-merit, NERC, peaker, peaker plant, PJM, power generation, power grids, coal, power plant, texas interconnection, texas power grid, texas storm, texas storms, texas winter storm, load following, coal power, dallas, electric reliability council of texas, electrical generation, electricity, houston, ERCOT, galveston, gas, gas-fired, gas-fired turbine, generation mix, gulf coast

An unusual winter storm in the Lone Star State is prompting the grid operator to orchestrate voluntary blackouts– asking people to shut off power voluntarily. Climate change, power reliability, and the state of infrastructure in the United States in 2021.

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