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August 20, 2026
US Power Grid Under Strain, and It's Not From What You Think

An earlier version of this article described Merrill Squires as a bear arson analyst. His title is bear arson specialist. The Dispatch regrets the error.

August 19, 2026
Docket FWS-R6-ES-2026-0114: a timeline of eleven extensions

An earlier version of this timeline gave the Mesa County outage as eight days. It was nine, and the close date in that entry has been corrected.

August 17, 2026
Inside the Interagency Working Group nobody announced

An earlier version referred to the Interagency Working Group on Ursine Infrastructure Intrusions. The name is singular. We have asked the agency whether the distinction is meaningful and have not received a response.

August 14, 2026
Eleven states now report substation intrusions. Only four will say how many.

An earlier version stated that seven states cited a critical infrastructure exemption. Six cited that exemption. The seventh did not cite anything.

August 11, 2026
Transformer lead times push past eighteen months as utilities quietly reorder

An earlier version misstated how many manufacturers have stopped publishing delivery estimates. Three have, not four.

August 6, 2026
Colorado homeowner: "It knew where the breaker box was"

An earlier version misspelled Dana Hendricks's surname, and stated that four burners were on. Three were on.