20 Years On- What We Have Learned

1. The 2003
BLACKOUTS
And what we’ve learned

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3. Italy Blackout
without power on all of the Italian
Peninsula
12 hours
3 hours
without power in parts of Switzerland
56 million people
affected in total

4. The northeastern U.S. and
southern Canada suffered
the worst power blackout in
history.
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Areas affected:
● New York to Massachusetts
● New Jersey west to Michigan
● Ohio north to Toronto
● Ottawa & Ontario

5. New York City
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6. Rome
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7. Toronto
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8. New York
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9. New York

10. Rome
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New York

12. Grand Central Station, NYC
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13. New York

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18. ROOT CAUSE

19. “Amateurs talk strategy;
professionals talk
logistics.”

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FERC
ERO
ROW
NRAs
NERC
IVM
TSOs
ACER
FERC
BMP
UVM
RROs
MOU
UCTE

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29. “ You can’t just look at your
system. You’ve got to look
at how your system
affects your neighbors
and vice versa.
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30. Thank you!
Lakshmi (Lex) Kumar
LKUMAR1@TULANE.EDU