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To: duckman
Just reminded me of the NYC blackout a few years ago. I don't think they ever found out the cause.

Found it -> https://reports.energy.gov/BlackoutFinal-Web.pdf

Earlier this month, the U.S. - Canada Power System Outage Task Force issued its final report on the Aug. 14, 2003, Midwest blackout and the associated widespread outages that extended to the Northeast and Canada. The report confirmed the root causes of the blackout inadequate situational awareness at FirstEnergy; inadequate management of tree growth in transmission rights-of-way by FirstEnergy; and failure of the interconnected grids reliability organizations to provide effective real-time diagnostic support. It added a fourth group of causes related to the failure to understand the inadequacies of FirstEnergys system regarding voltage instability and reactive power management. The reports principal recommendations included strengthening the institutional framework for reliability management in North America and making reliability standards mandatory and enforceable. One conclusion of the report is that it is essential to manage reliability and system security on a regional basis not just through separate utility-based control areas. The Task Force reaffirmed that independent power producers were not a cause of the blackout. The report also included a recommendation that an independent study of the relationship between reliability management, competition and industry restructuring be conducted. The Task Force explained that competitive power markets have, according to the Department of Energy, helped Americans save almost $13 billion annually, and that the recommended study should emphasize how the relationship between reliability and competition should be managed to best serve the public interest. A copy of the final report is available at https://reports.energy.gov/BlackoutFinal-Web.pdf.

http://www.epsa.org/forms/documents/IssueFormPublic/viewIssue?id=36EA0000001E


84 posted on 09/12/2005 1:51:19 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Thanx.


93 posted on 09/12/2005 1:53:46 PM PDT by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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