“Electric grids can be engineered to handle a wide range of severe conditions — as long as grid operators can reliably predict the dangers ahead. But as climate change accelerates, many electric grids will face extreme weather events that go far beyond the historical conditions those systems were designed for, putting them at risk of catastrophic failure. …

“[U]nless grid planners start planning for increasingly wild and unpredictable climate conditions, grid failures will happen again and again.”

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