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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: East Coast outage?
For good or bad, we in Alaska are not on a national grid. As it's staying light still till around 9 or 10:00pm, and it's cloudy and not 85 like it was last week, it would not have bothered us as much. FERC & NERC are surely going to more active now. Dee On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 16:18, JC Dill wrote: > 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 >
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