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The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT. [1]
The Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) was formed on January 19, 1966, as a successor to the Canada–United States Eastern Interconnection (CANUSE). [1] It was established to improve the reliability of electric service. [1] NPCC is one of six regional entities under North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) authority.
The initial blackout lasted around 9 hours where at 21:00 local time power to most of the affected areas was restored, [236] with almost 20 hours of blackout in total. Initially, the PLN (Indonesia's state electricity company) stated that cause of the outage was due to disruptions in a number of plants in Java, [ 237 ] but later said that the ...
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Northeast Blackout may refer to: Northeast blackout of 1965, a power outage that affected parts of Ontario, Canada, and the Northeastern United States;
On blackout dates, more travelers fly by necessity. Hence, a carrier can charge a higher price and yet fill its capacity, as the competition is also being fully booked on the blackout dates. A carrier can maximize profits by providing incentives to loyal but flexible travelers to plan and move their travel dates to lower traffic days, thereby ...