Helping the Grid to Bounce Back

摘要

One of the most crucial elements of the nation's critical infrastructure is gradually getting the attention it believes it deserves from both the electrical power industry and the federal government. In the years to come, that effort could finally yield agreement on how best to design and implement badly needed upgrades to a key component to the daily operation of the power grid-electrical transformers-and how they would be replaced in the event of a systemwide failure or an attack on the grid itself. Electrical transformers are an important part of the power distribution system. Past wide-scale outages have been linked to failed transformers, and replacement can be a lengthy and expensive proposition.