A. Utility companies have done quite a remarkable job managing the existing grid in North America.

北美的公用事业公司在管理现有电网方面取得了非常显著的成果。

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Suppose, for instance, that the global financial system collapses, or a new virus kills most of the world's population, or a solar storm destroys the power grid in North AmericaMovie Camera.

例如说，全球金融系统崩溃，或者一种新的病毒杀死了世界上的大部分人口，或者太阳风暴摧毁了北美洲的电网。

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The North Carolina energy grid it USES is made up of only about 5% clean energy, the report says, with the rest coming from either coal (62%) or nuclear (32%).

北卡罗莱纳州使用的电网只有5%是清洁能源，而剩余的62%来自煤炭和32%来自核能。

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Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Belgium agreed to coordinate investments and project development plans to roll out the offshore wind power grid across the North Sea, the Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea.

FORBES: Offshore Wind Race Accelerates Across Atlantic

Nor does anyone want a rerun of the overloading in early November of Germany's grid that left 10 million Europeans in five countries without power over a weekend, or of the collapse of the rickety North American grid in 2003.

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One way to change this would be to turn the east-west gas pipelines into a grid, with interconnectors running north to south.

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