Blackout Vs. Brownout: What Is the Difference?
According to the Electric Power Research Institute, the electric grid in the U.S. is 99.9% stable. In fact, the vast majority of outages that do occur are weather-related, such as an area losing power for days as a result of a hurricane. Bad storms aside, power outages are uncommon. When non-weather-related power outages do occur, they generally happen in two forms: brownout and blackout. The fundamental difference is that a brownout is a reduction in power whereas a blackout is a loss of power, but let’s have a closer look at these two types of power outages and see what...
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