Aug 12, 2022 - Why Power Outages Are Getting Worse In The U.S.
The average American experienced just over eight hours of power outages in 2020. The overall duration of power interruptions in the U.S. more than doubled over the past 5 years. Beyond just inconvenience, blackouts cost the U.S. an estimated $150 billion every year. They can also be fatal, as most recently seen during the 2021 outage in Texas. So why is the U.S. power grid so unreliable and can it be fixed?