Neglecting Grids Would Be the Ultimate Power Failure
Failures in electricity grids are thankfully rare. But when they strike — as with the March fire that shut down Heathrow Airport, or the Iberian Peninsula blackout that left 50 million people without power in April — they raise a wider question:
Are our grids adapting fast enough to a world of rising demand, new threats and cleaner power?
US alone will require 57% more transmission infrastructure by 2035.
Europe needs a third more interconnectors — cables linking the continent’s wholesale electricity markets — than currently planned in order to optimize its grid by 2030.
Bloomberg Editorial 2 June 2025
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