Title :
Analysis of a major load island outage on the Potomac Electric Power Company system
Author_Institution :
Potomac Electr. Power Co., Washington, DC, USA
fDate :
2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on
