Lessons Learned: The Big Blackout of 2003 Still Draws Attention to Reliability

Lessons Learned: The Big Blackout of 2003 Still Draws Attention to Reliability

By Samuel Glasser

On a hot day in August 2003, a high-voltage transmission line failed in Ohio, followed by a series of failures on other vital lines over the next two hours. As the massive power flows sought a path of least resistance, they overloaded other high-voltage lines and the time intervals became shorter between each subsequent failure.

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