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This didn't make it to the list the first time. Doh! > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 9:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report > > > > 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. > > > If you're interested in finding our more about how the power grid is operated, > my company has a lot of operational info documented on the web. It's scope > is the operation of the interconnected grid in the mid-Atlantic region of the > US (PA-NJ-DE-MD-DC-VA). The concepts and procedures documented there are > probably very similar to the ones used on the west coast (YMMV, I'm a > networking tech not a power systems engineer). > > All of our Operations Manuals are available at: http://pubs.pjm.com > > Of specific interest might be: Emergency Operations > http://pubs.pjm.com:80/dynaweb/PJMpubs/m13/@Generic__BookView and > Transmission Operations > http://pubs.pjm.com:80/dynaweb/PJMpubs/m03/@Generic__BookView > > > Chuck Conway > Network Management > PJM Interconnection, LLC > [email protected]
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