From Tail Risk to Design Baseline: How the Grid Is Adapting to Extreme Heat ↗

System planners and grid operators are treating extreme heat as an assumed operating condition given new pressures, including drought, demand growth, and fuel concerns. Will it be enough? For decades, the U.S. power system treated extreme heat as a tail risk, managed through seasonal readiness—something for which to prepare. But hotter conditions are now arriving […] The post From Tail Risk to Design Baseline: How the Grid Is Adapting to Extreme Heat appeared first on POWER Magazine .