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From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Birmingham: A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the creator of a popular website for tracking COVID-19 in the state is pondering what will become of his creation once the health care crisis eases. David Marconnet told WBHM he sees two options for his Bama Tracker site, which has been visited by at least 1.5 million people so far and presents publicly available data about the virus in easily accessible, understandable charts and graphs. Bama Trac...

Texas blackout: How can electricity grids weather climate shocks? Feb. 26 04:28 am JST Mar. 27 | 12:40 am JST WASHINGTON The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © Thomson Reuters Foundation ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. Feb. 26 07:19 am JST Another option is working with other states to share energy, in the event of power failures. Texas stands out as not havin...

USEA Press Briefing on The Lessons of Texas on Feb. 26 The first priority is to find out what happened, generator by generator, system by system and fuel by fuel.” — Llewellyn King Executive Producer and Host, "White House Chronicle"WASHINGTON, DC, USA, February 25, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Texas deep freeze was close to the sum of all fears for electric and gas utilities. If it could go wrong, it did go wrong, and Texans suffered. It has been a shot heard around the world. ...

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Electric grids need reform, but climate change could push the limits of their reliability to the breaking point.

Douglas County Diesel owner pleads guilty to theft after allegations he stole from customers Denver7 and last updated 2021-01-15 18:51:09-05 CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — A Douglas County business owner accused of stealing thousands of dollars from his customers received deferred judgment in Douglas County court this week, officials confirmed Friday. Chad King pleaded guilty to one count of theft between $5,000-$20,000, a Class 5 felony, and received a four-year deferred sentence. King was also ord...

Share this article Share this article PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), along with Schneider Electric, General Electric, and Smarter Grid Solutions, received a $2.2 million award to develop a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) to mitigate potential issues caused by integrating distributed energy resources (DER) with the electric grid. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) awarded th...