Northeast Blackout of 2003

SWITCHING TO SOLAR POWER IS A HEATHIER ALTERNATIVE ENERGY CHOICE ENG101_wk10_assn1_tdorrbecker_06122016 The 2003 Northeast Blackout was a two-day nightmare that spanned from New York to Canada. This incredible event was not due to a storm, but computer and human error; affecting over fifty million people with estimated losses up to ten billion dollars and 11 deaths (Walsh, 2013)! A loss of power turns inconvenience into a life-changing event when food in the refrigerator spoils, public transportation

Waxman) with one utility reporting that they have about 10,000 attempted attacks per month! The 2003 northeast blackout that saw about 50 million people from the northeast US and southeast Canada lose power for about 2 days at the cost of $6 billion dollars according to JR Minkel (Minkle) and was the biggest blackout in North American history (Minkle). The disaster lead to a report that showed the blackout was caused by a combination of human error and equipment failure. To prevent issues like this

Nikita Wilson William Bridges CS 3544 11/13/2017 “It’s Not Difficult to Hack the System” “It’s not difficult to hack the system” is what you hear from multiple professionals that work in the energy security profession. A study found by University of Maryland department of engineering there is a hacker attack every thirty-nine seconds, affecting one in three Americans each year.[1] This data was published in 2007 and has increased in the past decade. When Americans think of a cyber attack, one

The Northeast blackout of 2003 was one of the most critical blackouts in the history which affected more than 50 million people in both the United States and Canada. The main cause of this disaster was a software bug in the energy management system used by FirstEnergy Corporation, located in Akron, Ohio. This is a perfect example of poor quality coding may led to a big disaster. For a perfectly planned power grid, the power generation of each region is matched with the power consumption within this

1.1 Overview The purpose of this chapter is to give a brief introduction about this work and to introduce various topics such as power system economics, power flow techniques, distributed energy resources, and transactive energy used in this work. Restructuring of power Market over the years and its current status in US is introduced first. Major government acts which paved way for deregulation in power market and the current status of deregulation is discussed. Next, existing power market structure

The day of my conception in my mother’s womb I have no recollecting of this process. But, given my mother’s theory after questioning her about this part of my developmental cycle. She stated to me “ I was a very active baby at the beginning of her 5th month of pregnancy, and before those months I was very calm and still within her abdomen. At 7th month I started to suck on my thumb. This continued until the day of my birth. She had immense cravings for cheesecake. But, never experience morning sickness

The branches of the military, for a couple generations, have always been the Army, Navy, Air force, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard; however, in an ever evolving digital world, the notion that outer space would be the next military front is being rapidly replaced by the idea that cyber space will be the next arms race. The United States has been defending attacks on their infrastructure day after day, night after night, when one hacker on one side of the world sleeps, another takes their place

Electrical hazards are not limited to electric shock; those who are not working with or using electricity may be also at risk. Faulty electrical appliance or equipment and poor electrical installations may lead to fire which could potentially injure people around it. According to National Fire Protection Association, approximately 2600 people are killed in home fires each year, most are caused by electrical faults [4]. Also, electricity or even static could be the source of ignition in a potentially

Cyber Security Cyber security policy is largely dominated by two separate but similar incidents, cyber terrorism and state sponsored events. A cyber terrorist attack may be defined as a computer based attack, the purpose of which is to cause enough destruction that it intimidates a government into compliance for political purposes (XX1). State sponsored attacks, by contrast, is the intentional use of cyberspace by governments to illegally obtain classified information from another state. Such

In August of 2003, the largest blackout in US history happened because of Ohio 's failure to trim trees away from power lines. As a result, more than 50 million people in the Northeast, Midwest, and Canada were out of power for days. While Ohio is going back and forth on it its laws dealing with solar power installation, our friends across the Canadian border have already shut down the last of their coal powered plants. The current US power grid is over 100 years old and due to its heavy use, is