For Op-Ed’s 40th anniversary, an adaptation of an essay by Richard Price. By Richard Price The massive blackout on Aug. 14, 2003, five years ago, exposed many flaws in the nation’s fragile power grid.

(AP) - About 50 million people lost power Aug. 14, 2003, when a tree branch in Ohio started an outage that cascaded across a broad swath from Michigan to New England and Canada. Commuters in New York ...

Talk about a lightning surge. After years of being all but powerless in the Buffalo TV news market, Channel 2 had an impressive power surge Thursday covering the blackout of 2003. Channel 4 and ...

On Aug. 14, 2003, that man was Mike Kormos, vice president of operations for PJM Interconnection, the group in southeastern Pennsylvania that oversees the electric grid for 13 states. Kormos was at a ...