Texas News Just How Resilient Is Our Nation's Electrical Grid? By Texas Standard Published August 9, 2017 at 12:44 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Researchers are trying to determine weaknesses in the electrical grid.Oran Viriyincy/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Researchers are working to predict outages based on equipment deterioration, weather conditions and cyber attacks.