More and more blackouts sweeping the country are therefore inevitable.
The downsides of doing nothing — more blackouts — are too serious to ignore.
Sceptics argued that its reliance on micropower would cause more blackouts.
He added that it clearly indicated that the prospect of more blackouts on Thursday was high.
The company has been responsible for more blackouts in Ohio already this year than all of last year.
Surging power prices in South Australia, alongside the potential for more blackouts, is a massive issue locally.
Will that translate to 25 percent less subway service, less power for air-conditioners, more blackouts and brownouts, fewer street lights?
Then the hottest summer on record spurred repeated conservation warnings, as grid managers worked — successfully — to avoid more blackouts.
More blackouts are inevitable unless states and the federal government reassert control over wholesale power markets, they say.
"But if we don't address those problems now we are going to find ourselves down the road with more blackouts and shortages".
