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Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report


From: jzeeff () verio net (Jon Zeeff)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 09:04:27 -0500 (EST)


breakers on the substation.  It also caused a cascade effect, tripping
the Hunters Point and Potrero power plants.  

grid primary power sources.  Aside from the human error, the system worked
"as designed to protect the rest of the grid."

I suggest that causing a cascade effect and increasing the area of an
outage isn't a good way to design a system.



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