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What will it take for California to meet its new electric vehicle goals?

by Justin Ho
Sep 24, 2020
One expert says the state may need to improve its electric grid, while manufacturers bring down prices and pick up battery production.
Tesla car sits parked at a Tesla Supercharger. The Biden administration's new standards for EV chargers announced this week could set the stage for more business opportunities.
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PG&E blackouts have Californians scrambling for generators

by Kimberly Adams
Oct 28, 2019
The planned outages by California’s PG&E left hundreds of thousands without power this fall, and at least one company is benefiting.
A restaurant in Sonoma, California during the planned power outage by Pacific Gas & Electric in early October, 2019.
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What makes a grid "smart"?

by Lynne Peskoe-Yang
Apr 5, 2019
Advocates say the environmental benefit are compelling.
The power grid in California has held up under the test of a heatwave for now.
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Duke Energy CEO on the future of energy

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 9, 2018
The company's big challenge is keeping pace with technology.
Lynn Good, president and CEO of Duke Energy, speaks at the KPMG Women's Leadership Summit in 2015 in Harrison, New York.
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Russian cyberattack "should wake us up," former Air Force officer says

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Mar 26, 2018
Former Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff talks about the strategy behind the hacks.
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Some Puerto Ricans refuse to leave their island, despite lack of power

by Daisy Palacios
Dec 1, 2017
"That was horrible. It’s an experience that I don't ever want to live through again."
Glorimar Rivera outside her home in Hatillo, Puerto Rico.
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Getting power back to millions in Florida won't be easy

by Kai Ryssdal and Scott Tong
Sep 11, 2017
The country has a 100-year-old grid system and more frequent extreme storms, reporter Scott Tong says. Will the state "build back better"?
A couple walks through the flooded streets of Naples, Florida, today. Hurricane Irma made another landfall near Naples yesterday after inundating the Florida Keys. Electricity was out in much of the region.
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Cyberattack causes an outage in western Ukraine

by Molly Wood
Jan 12, 2016
It's the first known outage caused by a cyberattack, and it could happen in the U.S.
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Can America weather a cyber attack on its power grid?

by David Brancaccio and Beidi Zhang
Dec 1, 2015
A conversation with former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel.
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This war game tests vulnerability of the power grid

by Scott Tong
Nov 19, 2015
In a war game, utilities face all sorts of challenges: saboteurs, storms, squirrels.
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