An engineer from ComEd in Chicago gave a talk to our power systems students about this blackout from the point of view of the operators in the ComEd control center who, thanks to best practices, did not get taken down. But they felt the bump up against their distribution system and knew there was going to be a problem before the NERC relatability centers had any idea.
This video, from the Practical Engineering channel on YouTube is a great introduction to this amazing outage event. The cascade took less than 30 seconds from when it started and we can only hope the lessons learned documents are robust, studied, and applied for the future stability of the grid.
As an aside, if you aren’t familiar with Grady’s channel, you are in for a treat. He makes informative and technically accurate videos about a variety of civil engineering topics. The production is excellent and this narration is cogent and lucid. Check out the channel.
This video, from the Practical Engineering channel on YouTube is a great introduction to this amazing outage event. The cascade took less than 30 seconds from when it started and we can only hope the lessons learned documents are robust, studied, and applied for the future stability of the grid.
As an aside, if you aren’t familiar with Grady’s channel, you are in for a treat. He makes informative and technically accurate videos about a variety of civil engineering topics. The production is excellent and this narration is cogent and lucid. Check out the channel.