Lessons Learned: The Big Blackout of 2003 Still Draws Attention to Reliability
Breaking Energy 2014-07-17
Summary:
On a hot day in August 2003, a high-voltage transmission line failed in Ohio, followed by a series of failures on other vital lines over the next two hours. As the massive power flows sought a path of least resistance, they overloaded other high-voltage lines and the time intervals became shorter between each subsequent failure.