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What's Wrong with the Electric Grid?
Lerner, E J
Industrial Physicist. Vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 8,10-13. Oct.-Nov. 2003
The warnings were certainly there. In 1998, former utility
executive John Casazza predicted that "blackout risks will be
increased" if plans for deregulating electric power went ahead.
And the warnings continued to be heard from other energy experts
and planners. So it could not have been a great surprise to the
electric-power industry when, on August 14, a blackout that
covered much of the Northeast United States dramatically confirmed
these warnings. Experts widely agree that such failures of the
power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a
collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules
that now regulate it. To avoid future incidents, the nation must
either physically transform the system to accommodate the new
rules, or change the rules to better mesh with the power grid's
physical behavior.
 Descriptors: Warning | Blackout | Grids | Economics | Power transmission | Industries | Energy | Utilities | Failure | Electric power
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