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Grid Explainer

NPR
Published July 3, 1996 at 12:00 AM EDT

In the wake of this week's massive power outage in the West, NPR's Dan Charles explains how electric power grids work, how they sometimes fail, and what can be done to prevent outages.

Copyright 1996 NPR