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M$10 February 07, 2009 05:50 PM

Electrical Grid Interruptions in Service

I am looking for detailed information on grid outage events/interruption of service in the United States for the last few years. I am trying to find out which regions experience the most outages and how long the typical outage is. A graphic map of this would also be useful.
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pats pats
 
 February 10, 2009 11:42 PM
The frequency of blackouts affecting more than 50,000 people has held fairly constant at about 12 per year from 1984 to 2006.
0. For patterns of outages:
http://wpweb2.tepper.cmu.edu/ceic/papers/ceic-08-01.asp
1. For map of outages:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/powerfailure/01.htm
2. 2003 blackout:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_North_America_blackout
3. 2003 blackout compared to the historic blackouts of 1965 and 1977
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1397073


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karj karj
 
February 07, 2009 06:19 PM
you can go through the below site you might get the required details
www.epri.com

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davepamn davepamn
 
February 09, 2009 10:38 PM
According to a recent study by the Electric Power Research Institute, the U.S. economy loses between $119 and $188 billion annually because of power outages and quality fluctuations.

http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/CERTS/pdf/54049.pdf
Electricity Transmission Congestion Costs: A Review of recent reports

http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/CERTS/pdf/56503.pdf
The Potential Impacts of Competitive Wholesale market in the Midwest
Source(s):
http://www.edsa.com/infoCenter/pdfs/Ensuring_Business_Resilience_1_.pdf
$164 billion per year problem

http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2001/07/23/daily9.html
Power problems cost $119 billion annually

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/EETD-power-interruptions.html
Berkeley Lab Study Estimates $80 Billion Annual Cost of
Power Interruptions


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