re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report

[CONWAY () pjm com]

This didn't make it to the list the first time.  Doh!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jzeeff () verio net [SMTP:jzeeff () verio net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 9:04 AM
> To:   SEAN () SDG DRA COM
> Cc:   nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report
>
>
> > breakers on the substation.  It also caused a cascade effect, tripping
> > the Hunters Point and Potrero power plants.  
>
> > grid primary power sources.  Aside from the human error, the system worked
> > "as designed to protect the rest of the grid."
>
> I suggest that causing a cascade effect and increasing the area of an
> outage isn't a good way to design a system.
>
>
> If you're interested in finding our more about how the power grid is operated,
> my company has a lot of operational info documented on the web.   It's scope
> is the operation of the interconnected grid in the mid-Atlantic region of the
> US (PA-NJ-DE-MD-DC-VA). The concepts and procedures documented there are
> probably very similar to the ones used on the west coast (YMMV, I'm a
> networking tech not a power systems engineer).
>
> All of our Operations Manuals are available at:  http://pubs.pjm.com 
>
> Of specific interest might be: Emergency Operations
> http://pubs.pjm.com:80/dynaweb/PJMpubs/m13/@Generic__BookView   and
> Transmission Operations
> http://pubs.pjm.com:80/dynaweb/PJMpubs/m03/@Generic__BookView
>
>
> Chuck Conway
> Network Management
> PJM Interconnection, LLC
> conway () pjm com