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RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Thu Jan 18 16:13:03 2001 
On Thu, 18 January 2001, Eric Germann wrote:
> The main issue, which may or may not still be one, is that the
> East half of the US couldn't help because their gird is totally
> separate and out of phase with the Western grid.

The US and Canada are still divided into essentially three electrical
grids:  East, West and Texas.  Texas choose not to join the national
grids because they objected to some policies of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission.

You can find details about the national grids on the NERC web site.
http://www.nerc.com/