Lesson Plan: What the 2003 Blackout Revealed About the U.S. Power Grid
Grades 9-12
When a major blackout hit the U.S. and Canada in 2003, more than 50 million people lost power. In the days and weeks that followed, reporters and investigators worked to figure out what caused the outage. Their findings raised questions about how reliable the power grid was, and whether a system built decades earlier could handle modern demands. Today, questions remain about the vulnerability of the power grid. This lesson uses Retro Report’s blackout video to examine how sudden disruptions affect supply and demand, and the resulting economic consequences.
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