Texas Sues Xcel Over Panhandle Wildfires, Argues Modeling Flagged Risk Prior to Disaster
Texas alleges that Xcel Energy had measured, modeled, and warned of escalating wildfire risk in the Panhandle, yet failed to act on deteriorating infrastructure, turning quantified hazard into the largest wildfire in state history.
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Space Weather Models May Be Measuring the Wrong Risk
A new model of solar-storm risk exposes a fundamental problem: the metric used to measure the hazard may not capture the forces that actually cause trillions of dollars in physical losses.
