[MD_Willington_1976]

Should also post a link to the NERC findings...

The .gov doesn’t have a clue really, the DOE says there are no PMU’s in the USA.. uh what? I have 3 sitting on my desk right now... and there are several more (10’s of thousands) in the field... though PMU is not enabled.

Utilities are slow to adopt new technology, even though they have it already installed...

[P-40]

Should also post a link to the NERC findings...

They are not too optimistic over there either.

ftp://www.nerc.com/pub/sys/all_updl/docs/news/NERCNews0607.pdf

NERC’s 2006 Long-Term Reliability Assessment Report underscored the loss of expertise due to retirements as a potential threat to the reliability of the bulk power system.