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Coordinated disturbances haunt grids worldwide. Here’s how researchers solved the mystery.
Mystery solved: Coordinated power drops have been haunting power grid worldwide, but a team of researchers in Germany found the culprit.
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For years, mysterious electrical anomalies have been flummoxing grid managers around the world. Every 60 seconds, the frequency on the grid would drop a tiny bit.
Even weirder: The sags happened at the exact same time on power grids across countries and continents.
It was a mystery that Dirk Witthaut, a researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, couldn’t pass…
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