Texas News Just How Resilient Is Our Nation's Electrical Grid? KWBU | By Texas Standard Published August 9, 2017 at 12:44 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:19 Oran Viriyincy/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Researchers are trying to determine weaknesses in the electrical grid. Researchers are working to predict outages based on equipment deterioration, weather conditions and cyber attacks.