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T&DThe Blackout Behind the Blackout: What Sarnia’s 2003 Outages Reveal About Restart Risk
Restoring customer supply is not the same event as restoring a process plant. Sarnia’s 2003 outages show why power-system resilience has to be carried through safe shutdown, utilities, environmental controls, and staged restart. The Grid Event Was Only the First Failure State At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the Northeast blackout began to pull […]
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NuclearOntario Advances Bruce C Nuclear Project with $300M Pre-Development Agreement
Ontario took its most decisive step yet toward building Canada’s first large-scale nuclear station in more than three decades, directing the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) to enter a cost-sharing and recovery agreement with Bruce Power to advance pre-construction work on the proposed Bruce C project. The agreement, announced on May 7 by Energy and […]