Flexible Grid, Renewable Energy Offer Hope For Future

Renewable Energy World: August 14, 2003, was a dark day in U.S. history — in a lot of different ways.

It started off as a quiet Thursday.  Then a single tree limb in Ohio came crashing down, touching off a power outage which cascaded across eight states and parts of Canada, leaving 50 million Americans in the Northeast in the dark.  Commuters were stranded.  Businesses closed.  People sweltered in the heat.  And the U.S. economy took a huge beating, losing an estimated $10 billion.

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