✦ LIBER ✦
Solar energy security: Could dispersed PV generation have made a difference in the massive North American blackout?
✍ Scribed by Richard Perez; Brad Collins
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 332 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1471-0846
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✦ Synopsis
T he massive power outage was a combination of technical deficiencies and human error. The blackout proceeded through an evolution of precursor events that knocked five separate power systems out in the course of two and one-half hours. Next a cascading blackout plunged most of the northeastern corner of North America into an electrical island where demand exceeded generation. These events took place on a clear, hot afternoon with substantial solar resource over the entire affected area.