[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

DWP giving explanation on Channel7 , receiving station E in Burbank had a human error....caused problems all thru the system.

From Long Beach to the Velley was impacted....

[pettifogger]

John Gibson (FNC) just took a call from the CA Democratic Spokesman who IMMEDIATELY blamed the power outage on the governor's failure to address CA's power grid problems ("and instead was attending fundraisers . . . ). Will now every single solitary glitch in the infrastructure of this nation, or every single Act of God become a political football??? AAAUGGRH!

[Robert357]

I thought you might like to hear the official party line as to what happened. The debate in our office is that someone cut a bundle of control wires. The Sept 13th WSCC Daily Report indicates....

Yesterday/Weekend/Holiday Notable Events:
At 1232 PDT on Monday, September 12, 2005 LDWP reported that a major 230-kV receiving station was forced out of service causing the loss of approximately 725 MW of load, which resulted in high voltage in SCE area.

At 1239 LDWP manually shed approximately 250 MW of load to stabilize their system.

At 1305 CAISO reported that the 230-kV receiving station breaker’s relayed again, halfway through LDWP attempt at restoration causing large voltage swings throughout the SCE system which in turn caused LDWP to manually drop an additional 1,250 MW of load.

At 1356 LDWP restored all load. A Preliminary Disturbance Report has been prepared and is available on the WECC website.

Yesterday’s Non-simultaneous Peaks, Reserves, and Generation Limitations at time of Peak Area Peak Demand
1Actual Reserves
1Req. Reserves
1Gen. Outages/Limitations
Northwest SC 42,518 18.2% 7,724 2,97627,093
RM/DSW RC 27,798 17.5% 4,865 1,980 2,932
Calif./MX RC 39,389 12.4% 4,901 2,923 3,378
1 Peak demands, Actual and Projected Reserves and Required Reserves are non-simultaneous accumulations of peaks as reported by each area within each Reliability Center.
2 Required reserves calculated to be 7% of peak demand. Outlook