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Deaths. Almost 100. 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 ] Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), some as early as 6 ...
RM, Northeast Blackout of 2003 -> Northeast blackout of 2003, Uncontroversially Moved, 28 September 2011, request Inadequate situational awareness at FirstEnergy [ edit ] The fault alarm The primary cause of the loss of situational awareness was failure of the fault alarm part of a computer system.
March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung. [ 75 ] July 13— Azerbaijan — Baku and nearly the entirety of the country experienced a blackout due to unknown causes. [ 76 ] April 30—United States—Nearly all of JEA 's 355,000 customers in Jacksonville, Florida, lost power.
During the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the transmission systems within the PJM operations area largely remained operational and were not affected by the power failure. [9] When the grid separated, a small portion of the Public Service Electric & Gas of New Jersey zone electrically separated from the Eastern Interconnection due to over-frequency ...
Northeast Blackout. Northeast Blackout may refer to: Northeast blackout of 1965, a power outage that affected parts of Ontario, Canada, and the Northeastern United States. Northeast blackout of 2003, a power outage the affected parts of Ontario, Canada, and the Northeastern and Midwestern United States. Category:
The blackout affected some areas of Canada as well with a total of 10 million Canadians and 45 million Americans left without power. Today in history: Massive blackout hits Northeast US states ...
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a nonprofit corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia, and formed on March 28, 2006, as the successor to the North American Electric Reliability Council (also known as NERC). The original NERC was formed on June 1, 1968, by the electric utility industry to promote the reliability and ...
Last point: the method of presenting the year should be consistent across all similar articles (policy dictates either 2003 Northeast America blackout <for my serving suggestion> or Northeast America blackout of 2003). I favour the later and coincidentally, I inadvertently moved the article to the later when I was undoing the original move as I ...