DocumentCode
1471656
Title
Analysis of a major load island outage on the Potomac Electric Power Company system
Author
Thaden, M.
Author_Institution
Potomac Electr. Power Co., Washington, DC, USA
Volume
14
Issue
1
fYear
1999
fDate
2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
306
Lastpage
311
Abstract
This paper reviews the events of an incident, which occurred on June 20, 1997, that resulted in the islanding of a major load area in downtown Washington DC, USA, and the subsequent power outage to that load area. It discusses the investigation and analysis of the incident and lessons learned
Keywords
fault diagnosis; load (electric); power system faults; AD 20 06 1997; USA; Washington; incident; load island outage; power outage; Circuit faults; Failure analysis; Fault diagnosis; Power generation; Power system simulation; Protective relaying; Rivers; Substations; Switching circuits; Voltage;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0885-8950
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/59.744548
Filename
744548
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