How does power get to the people who use it?

In our new episode of Direct Current – An Energy.gov Podcast, we talk about one of the greatest engineering accomplishments of the 20th century — something we use every day, but often take for granted: the electric grid.

We talk to an expert about how power travels to our electric sockets, and hear about how one city — hit with major power outages during Superstorm Sandy in 2012 — is preparing for the next storm with something called a microgrid.

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