There are few products more critical to a complex society than electrical energy. Wide area blackouts caused by uncommonly high usage, natural causes, human design, or operating errors are catastrophic, but could be reduced to a minor inconvenience if proper ways to pacify or calm the system grid were employed. Even before the last large blackout in 2003, power companies have always looked for ways to control the flow of energy efficiently and prevent the cause for blackouts. One such utility is the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Portland, OR. In this article Paul explains how a Time Frequency Process CompactPCI module helped BPA deploy a grid stabilization solution.