Meaning of power grid | Babel Free

Definitions

The infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region.

Equivalents

Examples

“Russian missiles have damaged or destroyed much of Ukraine’s power grid since the start of October, a concerted effort to make the winter as painful as possible for the civilian population.”

“There have been several examples of space weather affecting power grids in the last few decades, notably blackouts caused by GICs [geomagnetically induced currents] in Canada in 1989 and Sweden in 2003.”

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