Decade after Northeast blackout, experts say grid better equipped to prevent such events

摘要

While the power grid and its operators are far better equipped today to ward off a cascading and multiday blackout of the sort that left more than 50 millionncustomers in the dark for days in the Midwest and Northeast a decade ago, experts warn the struggle is far from over. New threats to reliability havenemerged in the areas of cybersecurity and a changing generation fleet, they said.