Dive Summary:

• $107 billion could be needed by 2020 in order to keep U.S. electrical infrastructure running, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates.
• Grid stability and capacity may suffer if necessary improvements are not made, and that could be bad for everyone if the U.S. economy bounces back in the next few years and resources are not available to support higher peak usage.
• India might have been able to avert its recent crisis if it had been using phasor measurement units (PMU) and isolation transformers or had more storage capacity.

From the article:

Northern India's electricity has been restored after 600 million people were left in the dark for two days last week. While an outage of this magnitude is unlikely to occur in the U.S., grid stability and capacity are still a global concern.

This is a reality the U.S. should not take lightly. Case in point is the fact that in 2003, East Coast outages affected approximately 50 million people across the U.S and Canada. ...