{"id":241019,"date":"2026-07-07T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/electric-companies-dont-need-to-black-out-customers-to-prevent-wildfires-here-are-3-relatively-fast-affordable-solutions\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:00:09","slug":"electric-companies-dont-need-to-black-out-customers-to-prevent-wildfires-here-are-3-relatively-fast-affordable-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/electric-companies-dont-need-to-black-out-customers-to-prevent-wildfires-here-are-3-relatively-fast-affordable-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric companies don\u2019t need to black out customers to prevent wildfires \u2013 here are 3 relatively fast, affordable solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/electric-companies-dont-need-to-black-out-customers-to-prevent-wildfires-here-are-3-relatively-fast-affordable-solutions-285229\">Electric companies don\u2019t need to black out customers to prevent wildfires \u2013 here are 3 relatively fast, affordable solutions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/electric-companies-dont-need-to-black-out-customers-to-prevent-wildfires-here-are-3-relatively-fast-affordable-solutions-285229\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/electric-companies-dont-need-to-black-out-customers-to-prevent-wildfires-here-are-3-relatively-fast-affordable-solutions-285229<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-07 08:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Severe winter snow drought reduces snowpack levels in the American West, increasing fire risks by drying alpine vegetation.<\/li>\n<li>Electric utilities face challenges in delivering power without starting wildfires, leading to controversial preemptive power shut-offs.<\/li>\n<li>Preemptive blackouts, which began in California, are now used by 24 western power entities as part of wildfire prevention.<\/li>\n<li>Alternative and more modern solutions to prevent power lines from sparking fires include covered conductors, fast-trip settings, and topology optimization.<\/li>\n<li>AI and real-time smart sensors enhance grid management by providing localized, real-time data for targeted interventions rather than full-scale blackouts.<\/li>\n<li>The future involves risk-aware dispatching, merging infrastructure upgrades with technological advances for a safer, smarter power grid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric companies don\u2019t need to black out customers to prevent wildfires \u2013 here are 3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/742148\/original\/file-20260616-57-cjtuu8.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C512%2C5184%2C2592&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241021,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241019\/revisions\/241021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}