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Climate change may overload US electricity grid: study
Published Tue, Feb 7, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Miami
AS THE planet warms due to climate change and hot days become more common, the US electricity grid could be unable to meet peak energy needs by the century's end, researchers warned on Monday.
The cost to upgrade the US electrical grid so it can cope with peak demands may be on the order of US$180 billion, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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