It appears that this was the largest power outage on record,
in a variety of respects (geographic reach, number of grid
line-miles, megawatts of capacity, number of affected
customers, etc.).
Despite all the noise already arising about the "antiquated"
American grid, it's important to recognize h
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From: Mehmet Akcin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 15, 2003 1:10 AM
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Subject: Re: power failure causes and effects
I have been hearing on the TV that some places that had power failure have
started getting their power back, reporters say
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:12:04 -0700
Fred Heutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It looks like DC may have had a close call - the University of Maryland was
dark for about 1 hour, and I have heard several news reports here stating
that the local (DC regional) power grid just managed to
decouple from w
