CBS Boston Expert: As climate change continues, heat waves and power outages will too From Acton to Falmouth to Boston, the seven-day heat wave saw a flurry of power outages. “Basically, what happens, the network gets overloaded,” explained Dr. Ozlem Ergun, a Professor of Engineering at Northeastern University. “It’s not really the infrastructure, in the sense that the infrastructure is built for a certain level of demand, and when […]