{"644435":{"#nid":"644435","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Is Georgia susceptible to rolling blackouts during extreme cold weather? Here\u2019s what experts say","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMarilyn Brown, Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the piece \u0026quot;Is Georgia susceptible to rolling blackouts during extreme cold weather? Here\u0026rsquo;s what experts say,\u0026quot; broadcast Tuesday, Feb. 16 on WSB-TV.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrown, a former member of the Tennessee Valley Authority board and a renowned expert on sustainable energy systems, spoke to the factors that may have precipitated the widespread blackouts taking place in Texas in the midst of a deep cold snap in the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Texas, the state\u0026rsquo;s electric grid operator opted not to prepare its system for extreme cold.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You got to have thermal management practices in place. So Texas did not because it\u0026rsquo;s such a rare event,\u0026rdquo; said Dr. Marilyn Brown with Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/is-georgia-susceptible-rolling-blackouts-during-extreme-cold-weather-heres-what-experts-say\/4FPHHLLLAVEOXHZFFSQIOLBNI4\/?_website=cmg-tv-10010\u0022\u003EFull article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2021-02-18 15:08:04","changed_gmt":"2021-02-18 15:08:04","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Paul S. Goggin","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/is-georgia-susceptible-rolling-blackouts-during-extreme-cold-weather-heres-what-experts-say\/4FPHHLLLAVEOXHZFFSQIOLBNI4\/?_website=cmg-tv-10010","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641506":{"id":"641506","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Brown","body":null,"created":"1605909983","gmt_created":"2020-11-20 22:06:23","changed":"1612386538","gmt_changed":"2021-02-03 21:08:58","alt":"Regents Professor Marilyn Brown","file":{"fid":"243767","name":"RS644_Marilyn A Brown_2020jpg-scr (1).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS644_Marilyn%20A%20Brown_2020jpg-scr%20%281%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS644_Marilyn%20A%20Brown_2020jpg-scr%20%281%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":98293,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RS644_Marilyn%20A%20Brown_2020jpg-scr%20%281%29.jpg?itok=uDcX-sHf"}}},"media_ids":["641506"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}