Northeast US and Canada Power Failure of 2003
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Reports
[Liscouski-Elliot-2004 .]
Bob Liscouski and William J.S. Elliot, co-chairs,
Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations,
U.S. – Canada Power System Outage Task Force, 2004,
available from
https://reports.energy.gov and
http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/es/erb/CMFiles/BlackoutFinalImplementationReport.pdf
ResiliNets Keywords: power grid failure, infrastructure interdependence
Abstract:
[Cowie-Ogielski-Premore-Smith-Underwood-2004 .]
James H. Cowie, Andy T. Ogielski, BJ Premore, Eric A. Smith, and Todd Underwood,
Impact of the 2003 Blackouts on Internet Communications, Preliminary Report,
Renesys Corporation report, available from
http://www.renesys.com/tech/presentations/pdf/Renesys_BlackoutReport.pdf,
summary available from http://www.renesys.com/tech/presentations/blackout_results/
ResiliNets Keywords: power grid failure, infrastructure interdependence
Abstract: “In August 2003, electric power outages affected 50 million people in the Northeastern US and Canada, causing economic losses estimated to exceed $5 billion. The outage was not only the largest in US history, but also the first of its scale since the rise of the commercial Internet and the World Wide Web. In this report we examine the impact the blackout had on Internet connectivity and traffic routing in the region, as recorded in real time in data collected from Internet routers worldwide. We find that Internet connectivity in the blacked-out region was far more seriously affected than has been publicly revealed.”
