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'It's like a tidal wave in reverse'
Ontario’s electricity system has been studied, analyzed, reformed, tweaked and overhauled for a decade.
Somehow, we’ve still ended up with the biggest blackout in the province’s history.
While no one is happy with the massive blackout, even critics of the province’s power policies acknowledge that it may not be too surprising for a system as complex as the power grid to fail once every 40 years – the last major catastrophe was in 1965.
Bringing back power a slow, tricky process
Inability to store electricity part of complex challenge Rolling blackouts likely to persist over weekend
When electrical power fails as it did Thursday afternoon across a large swath of Ontario and the northeastern United States, it can take days to restore and large cities, like Toronto, are usually among the last to regain service.
Bringing back power a slow, tricky process
Inability to store electricity part of complex challenge Rolling blackouts likely to persist over weekend
When electrical power fails as it did Thursday afternoon across a large swath of Ontario and the northeastern United States, it can take days to restore and large cities, like Toronto, are usually among the last to regain service.
Lights out
First the good news: the biggest blackout ever in North America brought out the best in millions of citizens. Now the bad: it exposed a woefully fragile electrical system. How did it happen? And how vulnerable are we to another shutdown?
Major fixes are vital to prevent future blackouts
North America will see more power outages unless it deals not only with the engineering flaws that allowed last week’s blackout to spread within seconds across Ontario and eight U.S. states, but also with the policy flaws that have left electricity systems routinely on the knife edge of capacity.
Almost instantly, experts were debating how North American jurisdictions can boost their generating capacity, improve inadequate transmission systems and even restructure the basic architecture of how electricity is supplied to consumers.
Will blackout fuel more dirty power or less?
Toronto: Environmentalists in the United States and Canada fear last week’s blackout will provide potent ammunition for the politicians and business groups seeking massive investments in new power plants and transmission lines.
Will blackout fuel more dirty power or less?
Toronto: Environmentalists in the United States and Canada fear last week’s blackout will provide potent ammunition for the politicians and business groups seeking massive investments in new power plants and transmission lines.
Power company urges Ontario to lay out firm plan
Toronto: The Ontario government needs to clarify its long-term electricity plans and tell the private sector what the future holds for Ontario Power Generation, the chief executive officer of TransCanada Corp. said yesterday.
Harold Kvisle, whose company is already one of the largest private investors in Ontario’s power system, said business is willing to make investments to meet the province’s pressing need for more electricity generation capacity. But it needs to know the long-term game plan, he said.
Will blackout fuel more dirty power?
Toronto: Environmentalists in the United States and Canada fear last week’s blackout will provide potent ammunition for the politicians and business groups seeking massive investments in new power plants and transmission lines.
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