Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:55:54 +0000
Fifty-eight projects spearheaded by major U.S. power stakeholders will receive up to $3.5 billion in federal funding to improve grid flexibility and boost power system resiliency against extreme weather and […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:16:36 +0000
New technologies to monitor power lines are emerging worldwide, part of continuing efforts to harden the power grid and increase reliability and resiliency. Utilities and other operators of electricity
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:06:14 +0000
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Catastrophic wildfires have devastated California in recent years. This article seeks to outline a plan wherein neighboring utilities can send energy to support a utility that has shut down critical paths during wildfire mitigation efforts. On the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, the Camp Fire erupted 90 miles north of Sacramento, California (Figure 1). This fire […]
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Credit to Author: Randy Shore| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 01:39:31 +0000
Long-term trends toward higher temperatures, lower precipitation and the frequency of ignition events such as lightning have us moving briskly in the wrong direction
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Credit to Author: Gordon McIntyre| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:12:09 +0000
Jeff Austin of Williams Lake is one of the Canadians trying to tame Australia’s wildfires from the air.
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Credit to Author: Gavin Butler| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:39:45 +0000
As fires swept through southern New South Wales on New Year’s Eve, hundreds of residents were issued an emergency warning: evacuate now, or stay and defend.
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Credit to Author: Randy Shore| Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 22:13:39 +0000
The combined influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the El Niño-La Niña effect could mask the local effects of climate change
Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:55:19 +0000
What do we protect? What do we make resilient? What do we abandon, and how? What do we avoid? These are major global questions for the 21st Century
Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:05:46 +0000
Two-thousand-and-nineteen, due to unseasonable summer rains, saw significantly lower numbers.
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Credit to Author: Jeff Mercado| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:43:52 +0000
Firemen saved mementos and pictures off the walls. Then, a wedding ring.
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