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Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Atlanta following a 2014 winter storm. Photo credit: Christopher Aluka Berry/Reuters/Newscom
Snowplows cleared Interstate 285 in Atlanta on Jan. 29, 2014, after a rare ice storm swept through the Southeast. The severe winter weather left thousands stranded for hours on frozen roadways and strained the regional power grid. Christopher Aluka Berry/Reuters/Newscom
When arctic air sent the U.S. Southeast into a deep freeze seven years ago, electricity companies scrambled to stabilize the grid as customers stayed home and turned up the heat and other appliances. We didn t have rolling blackouts, but we were on the hairy edge, Tom Fanning, CEO of Atlanta-based utility giant Southern Co., said in a recent interview with E&E News.