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Bountiful to replace exhaust stack

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 11:17am

BOUNTIFUL — City leaders recently approved funding to replace an exhaust stack at the city’s power generation plant after a December wind storm damaged the unit.

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Blackout a reminder of power grid vulnerabilities

Elliot Spagat, Michael R. Blood The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 7:17am

SAN DIEGO -- Power has been restored to millions of people in the Southwest and Mexico, but questions linger over how such a massive outage could have been caused by a single utility worker doing a minor repair job.

Thursday's blackout has puzzled authorities and experts and was a reminder that the nation's transmission lines remain all too vulnerable to cascading power failures.

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