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Title
Down the lines: Our delicate electrical grid
Description
The nation's crumbling electric grid is the focus of this video report created as part of PoweringANation.org, a project through the School of Journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. Through interviews with industry leaders, the report explains how electric consumption is increasing dramatically, and the construction of power lines has fallen far behind, setting the stage for more serious and frequent blackouts in the coming years.



Date
May 30, 2011

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If you could design your own smart grid demo, what would it look like?

Three new demonstration projects caught our attention - a smart grid effort in Albuquerque's business district, a rapid recovery transformer study in Texas and a trial involving low voltage current sensor technologies in the UK. They also got us to thinking: At this stage in the smart grid build out, if you could design a demonstration project, what would it entail? That's our latest Tuesday Topic; click for the details.

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