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Causes of the 2003 major grid blackouts in North America and Europe, and recommended means to improve system dynamic performance
Göran Andersson,P. Donalek,R. Farmer,Nikos Hatziargyriou,Innocent Kamwa,P. Kundur,Nelson Martins,John Paserba,Pouyan Pourbeik,J.J. Sanchez-Gasca,R. P. Schulz,Aleksandar M. Stankovic,C.W. Taylor,Vijay Vittal +13 more
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In this article, the authors present the major conclusions drawn from the presentations and ensuing discussions during the all day session, focusing on the root causes of grid blackouts, together with recommendations based on lessons learned.Abstract:
On August 14, 2003, a cascading outage of transmission and generation facilities in the North American Eastern Interconnection resulted in a blackout of most of New York state as well as parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada. On September 23, 2003, nearly four million customers lost power in eastern Denmark and southern Sweden following a cascading outage that struck Scandinavia. Days later, a cascading outage between Italy and the rest of central Europe left most of Italy in darkness on September 28. These major blackouts are among the worst power system failures in the last few decades. The Power System Stability and Power System Stability Controls Subcommittees of the IEEE PES Power System Dynamic Performance Committee sponsored an all day panel session with experts from around the world. The experts described their recent work on the investigation of grid blackouts. The session offered a unique forum for discussion of possible root causes and necessary steps to reduce the risk of blackouts. This white paper presents the major conclusions drawn from the presentations and ensuing discussions during the all day session, focusing on the root causes of grid blackouts. This paper presents general conclusions drawn by this Committee together with recommendations based on lessons learned.read more
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the major events that occurred as the blackout initiated and evolved and identify the technical causes characterising the different phases of the process, which led to the general blackout.
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