{"id":47272,"date":"2019-07-17T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47272"},"modified":"2019-07-17T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:59:07","slug":"first-nyc-then-dcmore-power-outages-are-looming-could-your-area-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47272","title":{"rendered":"First NYC, Then DC\u2026More Power Outages Are Looming: Could Your Area Be Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First NYC, Then DC\u2026More Power Outages Are Looming: Could Your Area Be Next? <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anyone reading this probably knows that our American electrical grid is like a groaning, arthritic old man who just keeps on pushing through. We\u2019ve had more than just this one article<\/a> about massive grid failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems like we\u2019re seeing more and more power outages this summer for \u201cno reason.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week there was a blackout in NYC.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, New York City suffered a blackout in the heat of summer. Con Edison, the city\u2019s power provider said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Con Edison<\/a> said the blackout that plunged parts of Manhattan into darkness<\/a>Saturday night was due to a substation\u2019s relay protection system that \u201cdid not operate as designed.\u201d<\/p>

The utility company said the faulty system was at its West 65th Street substation.<\/p>

\u201cThat system detects electrical faults and directs circuit breakers to isolate and de-energize those faults. The relay protection system is designed with redundancies to provide high levels of reliability,\u201d Con Edison<\/a> said in a statement on Monday. \u201cIn this case, primary and backup relay systems did not isolate a faulted 13,000-volt distribution cable at West 64th Street and West End Avenue.\u201d<\/p>

Con Edison<\/a> said the blackout that plunged parts of Manhattan into darkness<\/a> Saturday night was due to a substation\u2019s relay protection system that \u201cdid not operate as designed.\u201d<\/p>

The utility company said the faulty system was at its West 65th Street substation.<\/p>

\u201cThat system detects electrical faults and directs circuit breakers to isolate and de-energize those faults. The relay protection system is designed with redundancies to provide high levels of reliability,\u201d Con Edison<\/a> said in a statement on Monday. \u201cIn this case, primary and backup relay systems did not isolate a faulted 13,000-volt distribution cable at West 64th Street and West End Avenue.\u201d (source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First NYC, Then DC\u2026More Power Outages Are Looming: Could Your Area Be Next? Anyone reading this probably knows that our American electrical grid is like a groaning, arthritic old man who just keeps on pushing through. We\u2019ve had more than just this one article about massive grid failure. It seems like we\u2019re seeing more and more power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6156,26290,583,1574,10864],"class_list":["post-47272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-dc","tag-nyc","tag-power-grid","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47273,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47272\/revisions\/47273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}