Gary, Indiana’s two-week blackout highlights a broader decline in U.S. grid reliability, driven by aging infrastructure, extreme weather, and rising electricity demand.
This outage illustrates that wealthier consumers can secure reliable private power while lower-income households increasingly depend on a deteriorating public grid.
After two weeks of darkness, residents of Gary have returned to normal life, but this incident is just one example of the ongoing unreliability of the U.S. power grid.
