Steve McMahon
11-19-2003, 09:48 PM
I just knew it had to be those American's fault! ;) Cut the wires and put up the fences. tongue.gif
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/19/blackout031119
WASHINGTON - Employee and equipment failures in Ohio, along with inadequate monitoring of the electricity grid, caused North America's largest blackout, an interim report concluded Wednesday.
The three-month, joint U.S.-Canada investigation laid almost all of the blame on Ohio's FirstEnergy Corp.
"The initiation of the Aug. 14, 2003 blackout was caused by deficiencies in specific practices, equipment and human decisions that coincided that afternoon," the report said.
The blackout cut electricity to 50 million people in Canada and the eastern United States.
The report cites three main causes:
"Inadequate situational awareness" at FirstEnergy
FirstEnergy's failure to trim trees around power lines
Failure of the interconnected grid's reliability co-ordinators to identify and deal with the problems before they were out of control
"High power flows to Canada" was ruled out as a possible cause.
The task force, chaired by Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal and U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, tabled its findings in Washington.
Martin O'Malley column: When the lights went out (again)
FirstEnergy's EastLake plant shut down unexpectedly, triggering a series of problems on its transmission line, the 134-page report says.
"The loss of (FirstEnergy's) Sammis-Star line triggered the cascade because it shut down the 345-(kilovolt) path into northern Ohio from eastern Ohio," said the report.
The failure created "major and unsustainable burdens" on lines in adjacent areas.
Investigators also blamed a lack "situational awareness" by FirstEnergy employees, who didn't know line monitoring software was not working.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/19/blackout031119
WASHINGTON - Employee and equipment failures in Ohio, along with inadequate monitoring of the electricity grid, caused North America's largest blackout, an interim report concluded Wednesday.
The three-month, joint U.S.-Canada investigation laid almost all of the blame on Ohio's FirstEnergy Corp.
"The initiation of the Aug. 14, 2003 blackout was caused by deficiencies in specific practices, equipment and human decisions that coincided that afternoon," the report said.
The blackout cut electricity to 50 million people in Canada and the eastern United States.
The report cites three main causes:
"Inadequate situational awareness" at FirstEnergy
FirstEnergy's failure to trim trees around power lines
Failure of the interconnected grid's reliability co-ordinators to identify and deal with the problems before they were out of control
"High power flows to Canada" was ruled out as a possible cause.
The task force, chaired by Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal and U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, tabled its findings in Washington.
Martin O'Malley column: When the lights went out (again)
FirstEnergy's EastLake plant shut down unexpectedly, triggering a series of problems on its transmission line, the 134-page report says.
"The loss of (FirstEnergy's) Sammis-Star line triggered the cascade because it shut down the 345-(kilovolt) path into northern Ohio from eastern Ohio," said the report.
The failure created "major and unsustainable burdens" on lines in adjacent areas.
Investigators also blamed a lack "situational awareness" by FirstEnergy employees, who didn't know line monitoring software was not working.