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How vulnerable is America’s power grid? The Wall Street Journal recently did an in-depth study to find out the answer to that question, and the results are unsettling. “Despite federal orders to secure the power grid, tens of thousands of ...

Much of America could face significant shortages of electricity as early as 2018, according to a new survey of utility and independent power producers. The survey of electric providers throughout the Midwest indicates the shortage — roughly 18 months away ...

Governments, business, residents and communities in southern California are largely unprepared for a major earthquake that can occur any day, according to the authors of a major study on disaster risk prepared by the University of Southern California (USC) that ...

In one of the craziest-but-true stories so far this year, a monkey is to blame for shutting down the entire electrical grid in the African nation of Kenya. All the monkey had to do to shut off service to 44 ...

May 30th, 2016 Video courtesy of Science Channel Solar flares erupt outward into space at up to 4.5 million miles per hour. What forces cause these explosions that can be the equivalent of millions of nuclear bombs detonating simultaneously? New ...

  Labor unrest can now be added to the list of threats to the electric power grid, as unions are threatening to strike and shut down the nuclear plants that provide most of France’s electricity. The workers are upset about ...

Four years ago this summer, the sun experienced a solar storm so severe that it nearly wiped out the entire power grid for not only the United States but the entire world. In fact, the only thing that saved Earth ...

Britain’s national power grid came dangerously close to running out of electricity in early May. The company that operates the system, National Grid, was forced to make an emergency request for 1,500 megawatts of additional electricity, Reuters reported. That request, ...

A recent government report claimed that the Department of Homeland Security has made major strides to protect the power grid from a crippling attack, but that report runs counter to sworn testimony in front of Congress and to what experts ...

  Venezuela’s president has ordered government workers to work only two days a week in order to conserve power and to prevent blackouts. The order means that government offices in the South America nation will be closed five days a ...