Milsoft began with a pencil, a calculator and one engineer’s circuit model. Thirty-seven years later, more than 1,000 utilities use its software to find faults, dispatch crews, answer anxious callers and keep the grid’s many databases speaking the same language.
TVA sells electricity, manages a river and recruits factories - a New Deal institution now being tested by record demand, a multibillion-dollar buildout and the uncertain promise of small nuclear reactors.