Review Faults Electricity Grid System
A year after the nation’s worst blackout, federal regulators issued a scathing review of the electricity industry’s voluntary efforts to make their power grids more reliable.
Industry audits play down shortcomings of the grid system and rely on ambiguous standards that often are ignored, according to a staff report by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The agency cited improvements since the blackout that started Aug. 14, 2003, with power line problems in Ohio and affected eight states and parts of Canada. But it said many concerns had not been addressed. Confusion remains among operators of some transmission systems about responsibility for curtailing available power and responding to emergencies, the review said.
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