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What’s the Solution to Power Outage Proliferation

USC Consulting Group

These included Alaska (138 minutes), the state with the lowest population density, Arizona (138 minutes), Wyoming (153 minutes), Vermont (172 minutes), and Montana (212 minutes). power grids are operating at full capacity. From 2003 to 2012, outages resulted in losses that averaged between $18 billion and $33 billion for the U.S.