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January 12, 2010 It was sheer coincidence that Masoud Farzaneh established the NSERC/Hydro-Québec/UQAC Industrial Research Chair on Atmospheric Icing of Power Network Equipment (CIGELE) only a few months before the ice storm of January 1998. For weeks, images of crystal-coated towers and wires collapsed under the weight of ice dominated the front pages of newspapers across the country, while much of Quebec and Eastern Ontario suffered without power. Over a decade later, Hydro-Québec has spent an estimated $2 billion to repair and reinforce the damage caused by that storm. It was a perfect demonstration of the need for a solution to the dangers of icy conditions, and Dr. Farzaneh and his team were already hard at work finding one.
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