The recent/ongoing power outages outrage and confuse me. How is it that we still have systems that break when it snows?

John Robb: Resilient Energy: Municipalization of Power

“Municipalization” of anything doesn’t seem like a great idea to me, but “grid resilience” does.

This week’s 508 will be about the election results and the Occupy Worcester arrests; I’d like to spend a couple weeks after that obsessing about grid upgrade schemes.