Facts About America’s Power Grid

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Facts About Americas Power Grid

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More than 450,000 miles of high-voltage
transmission lines keep United States lighten up.
The complex network is based on 3 major steps
including power plants where the journey of
electricity begins and then transferred into
transformers to consumers (you).
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1st Commercial Power Grid
Thomas Edison in 1882 introduced the 1st
commercial power grid by the name of The Pearl
Street Station in lower Manhattan.
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One of the first electricity consumers of the
Pearl Street Station were the offices of The New
York Times.
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The whole electrical infrastructure or electric
grid of America is based on 3 smaller grids
called interconnections. The Eastern
Interconnection The Western Interconnection The
Texas Interconnection
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The American electrical infrastructure undergoes
continues upgrades to meet the increasing
electricity demand of the nation. The 2009
Recovery Act made the department invest 4.5
billion to modernize and make the nations
electrical grids more reliable.
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Electric grids in America needs to be both
reliable and resilient in order to maintain
shorter power interruptions and prepared to
recover from severe weather damages.
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There are many causes that result into power
outages, but severe weather is ranked number 1
among all those causes. The economy of United
States is hit by 18 and 33 billion every year
due to power outages. The commonly faced issues
due to electrical outage includes damage to grid
infrastructure, lost output and wages, and
delayed production.
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Another major development towards electrical
reliability and resiliency is moving towards
microgrid technology. Microgrids operate through
the integration of distributed energy resources
such as backup generators and solar panels. The
most highlighting feature of microgrids is the
ability of operating autonomously during extreme
weather events though its generally connected to
traditional electrical grid in normal conditions.
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More than 100 million of investment has been
made the by the Department of Energy to improve a
resilient and reliable grid infrastructure to
survive and prevent cyber incident. Not only the
department of energy contributes for cyber
security of Americas power grid but it is also
secured by the Department of Defense, the
Department of Homeland Security and many other
departments.
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