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Re: East Coast outage?
From: "Chris Lewis" <clewis () nortelnetworks com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 22:11:02 -0400
David Lesher wrote:
True, and it's done. There are two very large DC lines in use: The Pacific Intertie, from Washington State down to Califunny A line from the Great Frozen North down to Minnesota.
IIUC, after the ice storm's enormous damage Hydro Quebec replaced their interconnects with the rest of the grid (primarily New York and Ontario) with a "DC buffer". Made it much easier for them to disconnect without harm from the melt-down.
They're already exporting power to both New York and Ontario to help them get back up.
Current thread:
- Re: East Coast outage?, (continued)
- Re: East Coast outage? Jay Hennigan (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Michael Painter (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? hackerwacker (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Lewis (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Lewis (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Adams (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Randy Neals (ORION) (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Lewis (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Geo. (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? W.D. McKinney (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Crist Clark (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Fred Baker (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Jack Bates (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Scott McGrath (Aug 14)