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1. home || Blackout History Project
- blackouts.gmu.edu
- Welcome to the Blackout History Project.
- The first event, the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965, was part of a massive cascading system failure that, in the span of fifteen minutes, left 30 million people in the dark. The second was the New York Blackout of 1977, which affected a much smaller service area--the metropolitan region--but resulted in severe looting and disruption. ...
- Whether you're a New Yorker who "survived" the blackouts, a member of the electric utility community who remembers those pivotal times, a scholar of technology and history, or just someone interested in how to use the web environment to build communities, the Blackout History Project can benefit from your contributions.
- If at any time you find yourself disoriented, confused, or in need of more detailed instructions on how to make your way through the Blackout History Project web site, click on the help section located at the bottom of the sidebar. ...
- blackout@history. ...
2. Natural Resources Canada - Canada-U.S. Power System Outage Task Force Interim Report
- www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca
- Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada.
- Chapter 3 - Status of the Northeastern Power Grid Before the Blackout Sequence Began (PDF file: 458Kb) .
- Chapter 4 - How and Why the Blackout Began (PDF file: 1. ...
- Chapter 5 - The Cascade Stage of the Blackout (PDF file: 959Kb) .
- Chapter 6 - The August 14 Blackout Compared With Previous Major North American Outages (PDF file: 99Kb) .
- Chapter 7 - Performance of Nuclear Power Plants Affected by the Blackout (PDF file: 154Kb) .
- Chapter 8 - Physical and Cyber Security Aspects of the Blackout (PDF file: 73Kb) .
3. debates || Blackout History Project
- blackouts.gmu.edu
- Our first debate concerns the historical significance of the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 for the electric utility industry. ...
- Richard Hirsh, "The Electric Utility Industry in 1965: At the Pinnacle of Success before the Blackout," 1999.
- blackout@history. ...
4. EO Natural Hazards: Blackout Hits U.S. and Canadian Cities
- earthobservatory.nasa.gov
- Natural Hazards >> Unique Imagery >> Blackout Hits U. ...
- Blackout Hits U. ...
- Authorities report there is no evidence of sabotage, although the cause of the blackout is not currently known. ...
- The blackout began spreading rapidly across the grid with the sudden surge in power. ...
- Although power was restored to some local areas within hours after the blackout, several major cities were left without power overnight. ... 14, about 20 hours before the blackout, and the bottom image shows the same area on Aug. 15, roughly 7 hours after the blackout. ...
5. John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate for California governor, demands full investigation into eastern US blackout
- www.wsws.org
- John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate for California governor, demands full investigation into eastern US blackout.
- Whatever the immediate cause of the blackout, it is bound up with the systematic deregulation of the energy industry and removal of any form of serious public control over the corporate giants that dominate it. ...
- Since the last great blackoutsthe East Coast power failure of 1965 and the New York blackout of 1977colossal changes in technology and demographics have occurred that have rendered daily life even more dependent on a safe and secure supply of energy. ...
- But similar practices contributed to this weeks blackout.
- On Friday, the Wall Street Journal, hardly an opponent of capitalist market policies, reported the following: Earlier this year, the head of the North American Electric Reliability Council, set up after the 1965 blackout, warned Congress that as economic and political pressures on electricity suppliers increase and electricity companies are splitting their functions NERC is seeing an increase in the number and severity of rules violations. ...
- The Bush administration is already preparing its coverup of this weeks blackout. ...
- I am calling for a full and public investigation into the blackout. ...
- Massive power blackout hits millions in Canada and the US.
6. NE Power Blackout captured by monitoring system
- www.electrotek.com
- The Anatomy of Thursday's Blackout.
- This facility experienced the disturbance that resulted in the largest blackout in North America on August 14, 2003 at 4:10PM EDT. ...
- "Among Dranetz-BMI's base of 20,000 customers are many of the utilities, agencies, and institutions impacted by the blackout, including Consolidated Edison, Public Service Electric & Gas, Niagara Mohawk, United Illuminating, New York City Transit Authority, the Federal Aviation Administration, and many leading Wall Street financial institutions," said Joseph I. ...
7. Blackout of 2003
- www.pserc.wisc.edu
- Resources for Understanding the Blackout of 2003.
- Blackout Reports .
- Blackout Description.
- /Canadian Blackout Links.
- Mass Blackout Hits Chile. ...
- NRG Flinders takes blame for blackout. ...
- NYISO Releases Final Report on the Blackout of 2003. ...
- Blackout rules are voluntary. ...
- Causes, Analyses and Countermeasures with Respect to Blackout in Croatia on January 12, 2003.
- Is Our Power Grid More Reliable One Year After the Blackout? U. ...
- In response to Recommendation 2a, from the report August 14, 2003 Blackout: NERC Actions to Prevent and Mitigate the Impacts of Future Cascading Blackouts, approved by the Board of Trustees on February 10, 2004, each reliability council shall report quarterly to NERC all violations of NERC and regional reliability council standards. ...
- Nationwide Blackout Looms in Lagos. ...
- said Monday it has successfully tested a fault limiter that could prevent a massive blackout like the one that crippled the eastern part of the nation a year ago.
- Even after the 2003 blackout, power transmission problems remain unresolved.
- Power blackout hits Bahrain. ...
- Alba power surge sparked blackout. ... An accidental, massive surge of power from Alba to the government network caused the total nationwide blackout in Bahrain yesterday. ...
8. Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG)
- globalresearch.ca
- Did Bush & Cheney "Order" The Great Blackout?.
- the Patriot Acts, why shouldn't a massive power outage get him "Energy Acts"? The timing of the Thursday blackout was amazingly coincidental. ...
- ' By the way, isn't this the same 'energy plan' that featured a list of still-secret names? An energy plan that will be sold using, as an incentive, a massive blackout that held millions hostage for dozens of hours, and headed up by a list of shadowy corporate figures whose names are being withheld from the public in violation of federal law? Yep, sounds like the Bush Reich to me.
- Back to the amazingly coincidental blackout. ...
- The very fact that Bush was in California the moment of the blackout seems orchestrated to me -as if the event had been staged as a crude way to both distance Bush from the 'scene of the crime' and to draw attention back to the California energy crisis. ...
- Another suspicious point in the blackout scenario is New York City Republican Mayor Bloomberg's ABSOLUTE PROMISE on the afternoon of 8/14 that the power would be back on by Friday. ... Yet Bloomberg made this bold prediction within an hour of the blackout's start. ...
- All through the night of August 14-15 power engineering experts across the country were already weighing in on the mysterious giant blackout in the Northeastern US on radio talk shows and Internet postings. ... Yes, a 'point blackout' could have happened, but a massive cascade? Something is fishy here. ...
- Now that widespread suspicions are being raised about the cause of the blackout, and the restoration of power is taking longer than Bloomberg, et al. ...
- But, just as the 'smart bombs' in Iraq were not so smart after all, the Bush blackout plan has not proved to be such a sweet off--and-on operation. ...
- Of course, the prolonged nature of the blackout in New York could have a more sinister cause: Could it be that the plucky, unperturbed response of New Yorkers wasn't what the Bush Reich was hoping for? And that the prolonged blackout in miserable heat is just the Reich's way of putting the screws to their victims, pushing them to the desired point of desperation where they will gratefully (Bush hopes) 'sign away their firstborn?' My bet is that New Yorkers are made of sterner stuff than this and the Bush scheme will still fail to bring them to their knees.
- Now, to another important aspect of the contrived 'energy crisis' and the issues surrounding it/ Ironically, I had started the following article several hours before the blackout, on the morning of the 14th.
- And, the need for new power plants, of course, has just been oh-so-conveniently 'highlighted' by the mysterious power blackout. ... imagined that the public would rush right out and clamor for mountain top coal as a way to avoid another blackout.
- Afternoon of August 14: an inexplicably huge blackout hits the Northeast, including the Ohio Valley.
9. News Release: PSC's Blackout Report Calls for Mandatory Reliability Standards for Utilities
- psc.wi.gov
- PSC's Blackout Report Calls for Mandatory Reliability Standards for Utilities.
- MADISON - The Public Service Commission (PSC) issued its final report on the East Coast Blackout today. The report reviews the major causes of the nation's largest blackout on August 14, 2003 and ways Wisconsin is responding to avoid similar problems.
- Even though Wisconsin's transmission system held during the East Coast blackout last year and there were no outages in the state, Governor Doyle asked the PSC to review the causes of the blackout and to recommend steps to guard against similar problems. "It makes good common sense for the PSC to take a close look at the blackout and see what lessons we can learn from that event," PSC Chairperson Burnie Bridge explained. ...
- The PSC report echoes the conclusion of recent federal reports on the East Coast Blackout by recommending that clear and understandable utility reliability standards should be mandatory. ... -Canada Power System Outage Task Force investigation concluded that the blackout might have been avoided if mandatory reliability standards had been in place. ...
10. Blackout ultimatum
- www.advogato.org
- Blackout ultimatum.
- Do you seriously think that they are, generally speaking, sympathetic to the police-state? Do you think that there is any possible way your blackout will help "the cause"? By choosing such an obscure and inappropriate place to make a stand, you just look like a self-obsessed control freak, not a serious political activist, and vastly decrease the chances that any serious, high-profile open source project will use their clout to make a stand, in an effort that might actually raise awareness. ...
- The last blackout, posted 2 Sep 2004 by nymia » (Journeyer).
- I thought Proclus was announcing the final last blackout which means no more blackout after that. Or was Proclus announcing the imminence of a blackout in response to certain event, regulation, etc? tk, posted 2 Sep 2004 by mslicker » (Master).
- This whole blackout thing and the way proclus has been promoting it here on Advogato has really annoyed me. ...
- GNU Darwin does more to change the world by simply existing and doing what it does than it ever will with some silly blackout campaign. ...
- the true color of blackout has been wiped out. ...
11. Power Outage | canada.com
- www.canada.com
- For the latest or breaking news on the blackout, please return to http://www. ...
- Bureaucrats' blackout break ends Public servants will return to work today and members of the public are no longer being asked to conserve energy after a massive power outage that strained provincial power grids for more than a week. ...
- Blackout to cost Ontario economy $550-million .
- The massive blackout that left 50 million people without power last week will cost the Ontario economy about $550-million, a report released yesterday states. ...
- Blackout investigators get down to work .
- An investigation into last week's crippling blackout will leave no area uncovered in an effort to find out what happened and how to prevent it from happening again, the Canadian and American governments promised Wednesday. ...
- Canadian Press, Aaron HarrisOne week after Ontario was plunged into darkness after a massive blackout, the province was expected to import more power Thursday from other jurisdictions to cope with a surge in electricity use because of soaring temperatures and limited domestic energy availability. ... regions hit by the biggest blackout in North American history. ...
- At least half of the federal public service in Ottawa will back on the job today, a week after the biggest power blackout in North American history shut down day-to-day government operations for four days. ...
- Prime Minister Jean Chrétien angrily responded yesterday to criticism of his performance during last week's power blackout in Ontario, saying he was working behind the scenes at his cottage rather than seeking "photo-ops. ...
- Oil companies are gouging Ontarians by opportunistically increasing the price of gasoline in the wake of last Thursday's blackout, opposition politicians charged yesterday. ...
- » Blackouts not necessarily for energy hogs: IMO » Energy use rising but power use in control » Experts doubt crisis will see long-term conservation » Blackout dims Ontario financial outlook » Blackout 'incentive' for action » Outage sets back efforts to put Pickering unit back in service .
- What to do in a blackout.
12. www.delawareonline.com : The News Journal : BUSINESS : Blackout prevention progresses
- www.delawareonline.com
- Blackout prevention progresses.
- NEW YORK -- One year ago today, a large swath of the Midwest and eastern United States was brought to a shuddering halt by the nation's worst-ever blackout: Stoplights went dark. ...
- The blackout also revealed glaring weaknesses in the nation's power grid and in emergency preparedness in hard-hit cities like New York. ...
- Although the blackout did not affect Delaware's power grid, it became part of a wider debate about the direction of the state's energy policy. At the time of the blackout, a state task force was writing an energy policy for Delaware. ...
- of the Delaware Energy Task Force said the blackout exposed system flaws that the policy would help correct. ...
- New York has spent millions of dollars on new high-tech gadgets to avert the chaos that followed the blackout. ...
- The blackout led to a broad analysis by the utility industry and a joint U. ...
- 14 blackout should have been prevented and that communications problems, faulty equipment and inadequate training allowed outages to spread. ...
- One line outage at the blackout's start happened when the line sagged and brushed a tree. ...
- FirstEnergy's stock price has surpassed pre-blackout levels, and it recently agreed to settle lawsuits filed against it in the wake of the outage. ...
- Many of the signal-boosting repeaters for emergency responders' radios lost power in the blackout after their batteries ran out. ...
- 14, 2003, during the nation's largest blackout. ...
- Pedestrians leaving Manhattan flood New York City's 59th Street Bridge to Queens after the blackout stranded commuters. ...
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