Hurricane Matthew is testing the new effort by utilities and the government to make the nation’selectric grid more storm-resistant. From 2008 through 2017, the U.S. government and utilities aresupposed to spend more than $32 billion on things like smart-grid and storm-hardening technology. Thatalso includes systems that are made to resist wind, flying debris and flooding. It also allows powerproviders to identify damage and restore electric power faster.Hurricane Matthew did not really provided the kind of weather forecasters feared at first, but it is stillproving to be a deadly and disruptive storm. As of Monday morning, at least 21 people had died and atleast one million locations remained without power, more so in the Carolinas. They suffered
