As Hurricane Maria swirled out to sea after plowing a destructive path across Puerto Rico in September 2017, initial reports were clear: The island's power grid lay in near ruin. DOE and its national laboratories immediately got busy, working not only to offer solutions for rebuilding the island's electricity network but also to make it resilient to future disruption. At ORNL, researchers stepped in to develop models for better grid protection, analyze options for new generation sources, and deploy sensors to monitor and evaluate the grid and inform decisions by the island's utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.
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