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WASHINGTON - Disregard for voluntary rules intended to ensure the flow of electricity opened the way for last summer's blackout in eight states and Canada, investigators said Monday in their final report. They urged government standards with teeth to ward off future outages.
There was a clear understanding long before the blackout last August that the Ohio region where the problems began was highly vulnerable to grid instability, said the report from a joint U.S.- Canada task force.See the full content of this document
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Blackout Panel Urges Federal Rules
Had the situation been properly addressed, the cascading blackout th...
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