The recent Rochester City Council authorization of repairs to a generator in the RPU fleet is obviously necessary, but it points out the major problem that the electric infrastructure in this county faces.
It is using technology that would have been recognized by Thomas Edison. The current grid is not a system but simply a group of individual lines, linked in some instances and not in others, that basically is dependent on something going wrong before the operators realize there is a problem.
via Postbulletin.com: Rochester, MN.
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