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Restoring Power After Natural Disasters — From A Shipping Container

This shipping container is a mobile microgrid.
(Photo courtesy of Nathan Johnson)
This shipping container is a mobile microgrid.

Puerto Rico is still dealing with power outages, more than a week after Hurricane Maria swept through the island.

And parts of Texas and Florida’s Gulf Coast also went without electricity after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

But backup plans are in the works, and Nathan Johnson is helping build them. He’s an assistant professor in the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU and works on microgrids.

Puerto Rico is still dealing with power outages, more than a week after Hurricane Maria swept through the island.

Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.