Title :
History - When the lights went out remembering 9 November 1965
Author :
Sulzberger, Carl
Abstract :
This paper remembers the 1965 Northeast Blackout (sometimes referred to as the Great Northeast Blackout) expressed in 14 responses to an e-mail inquiry sent out on November 9, 1995. Except for editing for length and to conform the responses to a consistent format, the words are those of the individual authors from a vantage point exactly 30 years after this industry-changing event
Keywords :
failure analysis; hydroelectric power stations; power generation faults; power generation reliability; power system restoration; power transmission lines; relay protection; NERC; North American Electric Reliability Council; November 1965 Northeast Blackout; Sir Adam Beck No. 2 hydroelectric generating station; backup relay; cascading outage interruption; power failure; power transmission lines; History; Hydroelectric power generation; North America; Power engineering and energy; Power generation; Power system reliability; Power transmission lines; Relays; Rivers; Standby generators;
Journal_Title :
Power and Energy Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPAE.2006.1687828
