Facts About America’s Power Grid

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More than 450,000 miles of high-voltage transmission

lines keep United States bright. The complex network is

based on 3 major steps including power plants where

the journey of electricity begins and then transferred

into transformers to consumers (you).

1st Commercial Power Grid

Thomas Edison in 1882 introduced the 1st

commercial power grid by the name of “The Pearl

Street Station” in lower Manhattan.

One of the first electricity consumers of the Pearl Street

Station were the offices of “The New York Times”.

The whole electrical infrastructure or electric grid

of America is based on 3 smaller grids called

interconnections.

The Eastern Interconnection

The Western Interconnection

The Texas Interconnection

The American electrical infrastructure

undergoes continues upgrades to meet

the increasing electricity demand of the

nation. The 2009 “Recovery Act” made

the department invest $4.5 billion to

modernize and make the nation’s

electrical grids more reliable.

Electric grids in America needs to be

both reliable and resilient in order to

maintain shorter power interruptions

and prepared to recover from severe

weather damages.

There are many causes that result into

power outages, but severe weather is

ranked number 1 among all those

causes. The economy of United States is

hit by $18 and $33 billion every year due

to power outages. The commonly faced

issues due to electrical outage includes

damage to grid infrastructure, lost output

and wages, and delayed production.

Another major development

towards electrical reliability and

resiliency is moving towards

microgrid technology. Microgrids

operate through the integration of

distributed energy resources such

as backup generators and solar

panels. The most highlighting

feature of microgrids is the ability

of operating autonomously during

extreme weather events though its

generally connected to traditional

electrical grid in normal conditions.

More than $100 million of investment has been made the

by the Department of Energy to improve a resilient and

reliable grid infrastructure to survive and prevent cyber

incident. Not only the department of energy contributes for

cyber security of America’s power grid but it is also

secured by the Department of Defense, the Department of

Homeland Security and many other departments.

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