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Re: East Coast outage?
From: JC Dill <nanog () vo cnchost com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:18:36 -0700
At 02:03 PM 8/14/2003, K. Scott Bethke wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html Looks like we lost the Niagara-Mohawk power grid
This looks pretty much like the same thing that happened (one failure causes cascading switch failures as the power overloads adjacent switches, taking down the whole grid) when the Pacific InterTie went down in the summer of 1996:
<http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/02/blackout.final/> <http://www.ece.umr.edu/courses/f02/ee207/spectrum/Grid/>Am I the only one who is surprised that here we are now - over 7 years later - and the electric grid industry still hasn't found/implemented a design fix for this problem? What does the FERC and the DOE do anyway? Do they just "regulate" prices? (Yeah, they did such a good job with E! and we in California will be paying for it for many years to come.) I kinda thought the whole point of having federal departments and commissions to oversee energy was to assure the country of a *reliable* energy system...
jc
Current thread:
- Re: East Coast outage?, (continued)
- Re: East Coast outage? Ray Bellis (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Dominic J. Eidson (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Larry Snyder (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Lloyd Taylor (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Lloyd Taylor (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Shawn Morris (Aug 14)
- RE: East Coast outage? Terry Baranski (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Scott Bradner (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? K. Scott Bethke (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? John Kinsella (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? JC Dill (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Joe Abley (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? JC Dill (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? alex (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? alex (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Scott A Crosby (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Vadim Antonov (Aug 15)