Smart Systems Protect Power Grids and Handle Extreme Weather

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By Aol Energy | 26 April 2012 | 213

When the power goes out, electric utility customers want it back, and fast. Now it's possible for a "smart" or "self-healing" electronic grid to reduce customers' hours without power to just a few minutes. But adopting this technology is more complicated than flipping a switch. A self-healing grid works by isolating the area where the impact of a power outage is the smallest and, ideally, restoring power to those customers almost immediately. Read More