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Overview
The report
What caused the blackout?
Reliability management
What didnt cause the blackout?
How do we know this?
Key events in the blackout
Why did the cascade spread?
Why did the cascade stop where it did?
Next steps
2
investigation
diameter
Extensive evidence of long-standing tree-line contacts
Training
Procedures and plans
Back-up facilities and tools
Communications
contracts
Control area operators and reliability coordinators
can order higher reactive power production from
IPPs but didnt on 8/14
Reactive power must be locally generated and
there are few IPPs that are electrically significant
to the FE area in Ohio
1
180
160
140
Dale-W.Canton
W.Akron Breaker
E.Lima-N.Finlay
Chamberlin-W.Akron
100
Cloverdale-Torrey
E.Lima-New Liberty
Babb-W.Akron
W.Akron-Pleasant Valley
120
Harding-Chamberlin
345 kV
80
60
40
20
16:05:55
EDT
15:51:41
EDT
15:41:35
EDT
15:32:03
EDT
15:05:41
EDT
Star-S.Canton
345 kV
Hanna - Juniper 345 kV
200
1)
4:06
2) 4:08:57
3)
4:10:37
4)
4:10:38.6
2
5) 4:10:39
7) 4:10:45
6) 4:10:44
8) 4:13
2
Affected areas
When the cascade
was over at
4:13pm, over 50
million people in
the northeast US
and the province
of Ontario were
out of power.
Next steps
Phase 1 investigation continues more data