Explainer: What Are Grid Interconnections And What Complicates Them?

Published on March 9, 2022

To someone facing a wildfire in California or bunking in a shelter after a flood in Louisiana, what does power supply from a far corner of the country have to do with survival? Quite a bit, as this tale of grid interconnection, will show.

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