ABSTRACT
Modern society has come to depend on reliable electricity as an essential resource for nearly all aspects of modern life, including national security and economic enterprise. Advancing legislation on federal, state, and local levels; changing grid structure by decreasing the country’s reliance on large regional power plants; and switching to the smart grid would help minimize power outages as well as would positively impact the country’s national and homeland security. Grid blackouts are one of the power outages’ categories accompanied by a complete failure of electrical power supply. In recent years, the frequent large-scale blackouts around the world have shown the vulnerability of interconnected power systems. The grid can be disrupted by numerous factors. One of them is a drop in voltage from a power supply, which does not result in a complete cutoff of electricity but leads to brownouts.
