Sharing risk to avoid power outages in an era of extreme weather

Sharing risk to avoid power outages in an era of extreme weather

This summer’s Western heat waves raise the specter of recent years’ rotating power outages and record-breaking electricity demand in the region. If utilities across the area expanded current schemes to share electricity, they could cut outage risks by as much as 40%, according to new research by the Climate and Energy Policy Program at the Stanford Woods Institute … Read more