Final report on the August 14, 2003 blackout in the United States and Canada : causes and recommendations

作者：A. Muir, J Lopatto · 发表于：OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 年份：2004 · 被引用次数：949 · 研究领域：Power Systems and Technologies、Power System Reliability and Maintenance、Smart Grid and Power Systems

This final report by the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force examines the electricity system before and during the massive power outage on August 14, 2003 which affected approximately 50 million people in the Midwest and Northeast United States and Ontario, Canada. The report identifies the causes of the outage and why they were not contained. It also gives recommendations to prevent or minimize future blackouts, some of which include implementing reliability standards and increasing the physical and cyber security of the network. The four group causes for the blackout have been identified as: (1) inadequate system understanding, (2) inadequate situational awareness, (3) inadequate tree trimming, and (4) inadequate reliability coordinator diagnostic support. This final report covers work done by 3 working groups which focused on the electric system, security and nuclear facilities. The chapters of this report dealt with the following issues: the North American electric power system and its reliability organizations; causes of the blackout and violations of North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) standards; preconditions for the blackout with reference to the northeastern power grid before the blackout; how the blackout began in Ohio; the cascade stage of the blackout; the August 14 blackout compared with previous major North American outages; performance of nuclear power plants affected by the blackout; and, physical and cyber security aspects of the blackou...