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	Northeast Blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Northeast Blackout of 2003 was a massive power outage that occurred throughout parts of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003.
		Those who relied on the Internet were similarly disconnected from their news source for the duration of the flout, with the exception of dialup access from laptop computers, which was widely reported to work until the battery would run out of charge.
		The show was rescheduled for later in the month; many Stooges fans quipped that the flout had been caused when guitarist Ron Asheton was playing his guitar during soundcheck, a joke immortalized in the liner notes of a DVD of the rescheduled concert.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_North_America_blackout (6064 words)

	CNN.com - Major power outage hits New York, other large cities - Aug. 14, 2003
		Bryan Lee, a spokesman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said it appeared that a "cascading flout" destabilized the Niagara-Mohawk power grid as far north as Canada and as far west as Detroit and Cleveland.
		The last big flout in the United States took place almost exactly seven years ago, August 11, 1996, when some 4 million customers in nine Western states and parts of Mexico lost power for as long as 10 hours.
		In the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965, the largest in U.S. history, at least 25 million people in New York, New England and portions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey lost electricity for a day starting late in the afternoon of November 9.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/14/power.outage (1302 words)

	The Blackout of 2003
		When the lights went down during the Blackout of 2003 in Detroit, the Midtown neighborhood sprang to life with creativity, conversation, and children singing.
		By the second night of the flout, I fell asleep on a mattress on my living room floor to the sounds of children's voices singing in unison at one of the many neighborhood parties nearby.
		During the flout, with all but the small neighborhood beer-and-groceries closed, the well-heeled were no where to be seen.
	www.newcolonist.com /blackout.html (1161 words)

	Storage Networking World Online - Moving forward on lessons learned from the blackout of 2003
		The chance of a regional flout occurring is statistically low, and the cost of setting up a backup facility out of harm's way is high, particularly in terms of broadband connections, Krischer says.
		The 2003 flout provided helpful, if sometimes painful, lessons to companies in the Northeast, regarding their ability to deal with a large-scale disaster.
		The flout also taught Gonick's group that it needed to assign different levels of criticality to application and network services so they can be brought up in a prioritized fashion.
	www.snwonline.com /behind/blackout_2003_11-08-04.asp?article_id=474 (1355 words)

	Understanding the 2003 Power Outages, Cascading Blackouts, & the Transmission Grid \| Energy Consulting \| ICF ...
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		The Italian flout, like the one in Copenhagen last week, and London last month, as well as near misses in Vienna and Amsterdam, are a wake-up call for Europe's transmission market participants.
		Although each power outage had a different cause at its root, the flouts highlight the fact that there is a critical need for significant new investment in the European grid.
	www.icfi.com /markets/energy/northeast-blackout.asp (2372 words)

	Calvin College - Spark - Winter 2003 - Blackout Wakes Up Administration
		In 2003, Dr. Ribeiro was elected Fellow of the IEEE as a consequence of his work in transmission grids, including superconducting magnetic energy storage systems (one of the technologies which can minimize power flouts).
		This summer’s east coast flout — which affected 50 million people across parts of the United States and Canada — was an important wake-up call for many people, including local, state and national politicians.
		I remember one flout in Brazil, affecting one-third of the country, which was caused by a toad that short-circuited a major high-voltage transformer by jumping from one phase to the other.
	www.calvin.edu /publications/spark/2003/winter/blackout.htm (1125 words)

	Blackout 2003 - The Power Factor
		The flout was not caused by mere equipment malfunctions.
		As nervous politicians and scurrying utility managers seek to convince us that a mere mechanical breakdown was the cause of the flout, let us not forget that it was the human systems that failed us.
		Common sense demands that in the event of a network transient, service areas be isolated ("islands") to prevent a cascading failure of the type that took 21 power plants off-line.
	www.quarterly-report.com /energy/blackout_2003.html (786 words)

	The Times Herald - 2003 blackout costly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The flout affected parts of eight states and the Canadian province of Ontario.
		The flout affected at least eight oil refineries in the United States and Canada.
		The flout led to a broad analysis by the utility industry and a joint U.S.-Canadian government task force of how electricity is transmitted and what could be done to minimize a repeat.
	www.timesherald.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=12694500&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6 (628 words)

	Lessons from the August 2003 Blackout
		The electricity flout on August 14, 2003, highlighted the fragility of our electricity system and unleashed a torrent of proposals to upgrade it.
		Since the flout, a wide range of sources, including the utility-funded Electric Power Research Institute, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and executives with major utilities have cited the problem that the grid was not designed to handle these flows.
		In July 2003, the Senate passed a renewable electricity standard requiring major electricity companies to obtain 10 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.
	www.ucsusa.org /clean_energy/clean_energy_policies/lessons-from-the-august-2003-blackout.html (2149 words)

	Learning from the 2003 Blackout, September/October 2004 Public Roads
		The flout hit Detroit at rush hour, so traffic that normally would have been staggered throughout the evening was concentrated in the period immediately after the beginning of the flout.
		But if an event covers a wide geographic area, as the 2003 flout did, parties that have agreed to assist one another may be unable to do so because they need to address their own set of problems or are spread too thin.
		The 2003 flout is just another in a long series of wake-up calls about the need to prepare for the unexpected.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/04sep/04.htm (8275 words)

	Blackout 2003
		On September 4, 2003, IESO President and Chief Executive Officer David Goulding presented a testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce on the flout.
		On August 15, 2003, Prime Minister Jean Chretien and US President George W. Bush agreed to form a joint task force to identify the causes of the power outage and to seek recommendations to help prevent future outages.
		The interim report assesses conditions on the electric transmission grid that contributed to the flout, outlines the actual physical causes of the outage, and discusses events and conditions that allowed the flout to spread to large areas of the United States and Canada.
	www.theimo.com /imoweb/EmergencyPrep/blackout2003/default.asp (2633 words)

	Blackout 2003 - Pop Occulture Blog
		Blackout or no flout, it was New York, and people still wanted to spend money and eat food.
		Once the flout was history, there was a lot of buzz about 9/11 and how that collective tragedy had somehow prepared people emotionally to get through this situation without all the stupid turmoil you’d normally expect.
		The flout was caused by the explosion of the bridge where the power cables are due to incompetence of the maintenence team.
	www.timboucher.com /journal/2005/06/03/blackout-2003 (2672 words)

	The Trentonian - Blackout of 2003 highlights our interdependence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But the flout of 2003 was not forgotten.
		In the end, a joint investigation by American and Canadian authorities determined the massive flout originated at a small Ohio power plant when a 345,000-volt line was downed by a tree branch.
		But while the flout’s ramifications have been made clear in the year since, those in the industry said not enough has been done to update and modernize the interconnected grid that failed last summer.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=12687167&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 (831 words)

	Blackout of 2003
		This presentation at the October 7, 2003, PSERC research seminar describes an approach, developed in research on complex interactive networks, for identifying and mitigating consequences of multiple outage events.
		Blackouts Are Inevitable: Coping, Not Prevention, Should Be the Primary Goal.
		QUEENSLAND'S Black Friday flout is believed to have been caused by the failure of a wheelie-bin-sized piece of equipment at a NSW electricity generator plant.
	www.pserc.wisc.edu /Resources.htm (7707 words)

	ES&T Online News: 2003 blackout cleaned the air
		By comparing these measurements to data collected the previous summer when upwind plants were operating normally over the same locations under similar meteorological conditions, the researchers documented a dramatic drop in the pollutants associated with burning coal.
		On August 15, 2003, the levels of sulfur dioxide and ozone were 90 and 50% lower, respectively, in fled-out Pennsylvania.
		The researchers reasoned that cars and trucks are the primary source of airborne CO and soot and that vehicle use in upwind areas remained normal during the flout.
	pubs.acs.org /subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2004/jul/science/rp_blackout.html (460 words)

	Did a Secret Military Experiment Cause the 2003 Blackout? - Sierra Times.com
		I believe the facts I have presented herein are sufficient to speak for themselves and should convince the public that oversight is needed when experimenting with aspects of the atmosphere that are not well known.
		By having a flout that covered one quarter of the country we can now see how people would respond, what the strengths and weaknesses of our emergency response systems are, and how quickly we could restore our systems to operating capacity.
		Sattelite environment shows that an enhanced flux of high energy electrons which would create preferable reflection conditions for HAARP were present at the time of the event, and geomagnetic activity that could cause problems with the power-grid were non-existent.
	www.sierratimes.com /03/09/10/article_blackout.htm (1603 words)

	MPSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The August 14, 2003 electricity flout stamped an indelible impression on the minds of North Americans.
		Almost as quickly as the event struck an avalanche of worldwide media coverage reported that the largest electric flout in North American history had, in a matter of minutes, suddenly plunged 50 million North Americans into darkness and forced thousands of businesses to abruptly close operations.
		A search for answers as to what happened on August 14, and, more importantly, what can be done to strengthen the reliability of our electric system to prevent such an event from recurring in the future was immediately set in motion with a sense of keen urgency.
	www.michigan.gov /blackout (414 words)

	The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Democrats: Selected Legislation and Issues - Issue Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Last August, our country experienced the most widespread power flout in U.S. history and we are as much at risk for a power failure now as we were then.
		Since the flout eleven months ago, Democrats have been urging the Republican leadership to bring separate electricity reliability legislation to the Floor to prevent another flout.
		September 6, 2003 -- Rep. John D. Dingell introduces a motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 6, the "Energy Policy Act of 2003." The motion would have allowed electricity reliability provisions included in the energy conference report to come to the House floor quickly under separate legislation.
	www.house.gov /commerce_democrats/electric/elecblackouthome.shtml (705 words)

	Utilities take to heart lessons of 2003 blackout
		A grid failure in northern Ohio triggered the Aug. 14, 2003 flout.
		One thing that hasn't happened since the flout is the adoption of the task force's main recommendation: Making the present voluntary system of rules assuring the reliability of the nation's electric transmission grid mandatory.
		Cinergy has announced no improvements to its transmission and distribution systems specifically because of the flout, although it is always investing in its system.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/08/13/biz_blackout13.html (1503 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Blackout Leaves American Cities in the Dark
		Authorities report there is no evidence of sabotage, although the cause of the flout is not currently known.
		The flout began spreading rapidly across the grid with the sudden surge in power.
		The top image was acquired on Aug. 14, about 20 hours before the flout, and the bottom image shows the same area on Aug. 15, roughly 7 hours after the flout.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16273 (296 words)

	NY1: Top Stories
		Power was fully restored throughout the five boroughs 29 hours after the worst flout in American history swept across the Northeast, and now subway service is also back on track.
		The flout shut down two waste water treatment facilities, dumping millions of gallons of raw sewage into the ocean.
		City officials’ praised the reaction of New Yorkers to the flout, contrasting the relative calm with the widespread looting and thousands of arrests following the city’s last major outage, in 1977.
	www.ny1.com /ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=32471 (1273 words)

	EnerNex Corporation: News: Blackout 2003
		The final figure that follows shows the voltage profile for the entire day of August 14, 2003 - the day to be remembered for years to come as the day the Blackout of 2003 occurred.
		EnerNex Corporation provides measurement and analysis services to utilities, industry, and government agencies to analyze these types of events for the purpose of understanding their cause and then work to develop methods and practices to minimize the chances of their occurrence in the future.
		An analysis of the impact of the 1977 flout performed by one of our associates (Dr. William T. Miles) and published in July of 1978 can be found at http://www.enernex.com/special/impact_77_flout.pdf.
	www.enernex.com /special/blackout.htm (669 words)

	USATODAY.com - Net entrepreneurs sell souvenirs of blackout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It didn't take long for some savvy folks to dream up merchandising the flout of 2003.
		Blackout merchandise started popping up on the Internet within hours of the outage, offering everything from mugs with a list of all the affected cities, to tote bags with a tasteful fl-and-white design — "Blackout 2003" along with Thursday's date.
		The catch-phrase on Johnson's merchandise is "Black Thursday 2003," and includes the Canadian and American flags.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/webguide/internetlife/2003-08-19-blackout-souvenirs_x.htm (620 words)

	Behind the Blackout
		SIMMONS: This flout ought to be an incredible jolt telling us about a host of energy problems that are ultimately going to prevent any future economic growth.
		With the flout, more than seven hundred thousand barrels per day of refinery capacity were shut down.
		Following the 1965 flout when NERC was created there was a mandate that publicly owned and regulated power providers had to build new plants.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/082103_blackout.html (3185 words)

	Blackout 2003: When the lights went out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the wake of the flout, the Ontario government is asking all private businesses, commercial industry and citizens to reduce energy consumption by 50 per cent until the fragile power network returns to full capacity.
		These limitations may last for a single day or an entire week, depending on how the weakened energy supply to the grid reacts to the daily demands of workaday life.
		Blackout survey: Tell us your thoughts and experiences when the lights went out
	www.canadiangeographic.ca /blackout_2003/default.html (407 words)

	Satellite Picture of 2003 Northeast Blackout? - BreakTheChain.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		However, the image shows some obvious signs of editing and is inconsistent with reports of the flout and other known facts.
		The flout is represented as total, when it wasn't.
		The flout area is shown as dark fl - fler than areas on the map that have no lights at all, such as northern Canada and the Pacific Ocean.
	www.breakthechain.org /exclusives/blackoutsat.html (503 words)

	Scholastic News: Blackout 2003
		Gonzalez said the flout cost him tens of thousands of dollars.
		Wednesday, August 20—A joint task force between Canada and the U.S. took charge of investigating the reasons for the recent flout.
		They say legislation dealing with the flout would "be held hostage" by the controversial portions of the energy bill.
	teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/indepth/blackout/latest_news (295 words)

	HVA News: EMS During the Blackout of 2003
		The Blackout of 2003 took it’s toll on our community last month, as people struggled with darkness, lack of refrigeration, unlit traffic signals and closed gas stations.
		During the first several hours of the flout, 9-1-1 requests for EMS escalated rapidly.
		Overall, operations during the flout went well and were uneventful, for the most part.
	www.hva.org /Programs/News/3-005-Blackout2003.htm (495 words)

	Focus on Electricty blackouts - Italy 28 September 2003
		The flout impacted almost the whole Italian population of 57 million people, putting it on a similar scale to the United States and Canada flout of August 2003.
		Two brief press releases on the flout from ETRANS, the independent coordination company for the Swiss extra high voltage grid, provide a further view of events.
		The underlying causes of the incident that occurred on 28 September 2003 are the unresolved conflicts between the trading interests of the involved countries and operators and the technical requirements of the existing transnational electricity system.
	www.worldenergy.org /wec-geis/focus/blackouts/italy.asp (325 words)

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