The Development of EAGLE-I: The First-Ever Technology to Track Power Outages Nationwide
By US Department of Energy
As
recently as 2002, no system in America could gather and share real-time
emergency situation information on power and natural
gas infrastructure – a weakness exposed by the widespread destruction by
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. A team of Energy
Department experts remedied this situation by developing a system to do
just that, and are now being recognized for their work.
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