Reading Time: 3 minutesWe open on a beautiful house set in the dead heat of the summer. The lights are on inside and we can see a group of friends enjoying their popcorn. Suddenly sinister music starts to play. The lights cut out. One of the friends tries flipping the breaker on and off. Nothing is happening. He goes to the outside to check if anything is cut. Everything looks ok. Suddenly he notices something out of the corner of his eye. All the lights on the street are out. He screams. The scene ends.   Sounds super cheesy right? Well, despite a little melodrama, power outages are a very real threat that many consumers face on a daily basis. More often, than not, power outages aren’t even something they have a direct influence on. Sure, they are running their AC, maybe they have too many lights on, but no one person causes an entire grid to shutdown. Utilities companies try their absolute hardest to keep everything running regardless of how many people are using the grid at any one time.   The problem is,