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In System Failure - Anatomy of a Blackout - Part 1, you'll learn ...
- The ability to explain the conditions prior to the blackout
- The ability to identify key players involved in the blackout
- The operational failures of First Energy
- The operational issues of MISO that contributed to the outage
Overview
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Credit: 4 PDH
Length: 46 pages
This four-hour course is a detailed account of the August 14, 2003 electric system blackout that affected over 50 million people in the Eastern United States - one of the largest blackouts in American history. This course is part one of a two part series about the blackout. Part one covers the conditions leading up to the point where the system started cascading into a blackout. To help understand the confusion that occurred on August 14th, the course includes actual transcripts of conversations between control centers and generating facilities.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the conditions that existed prior to the blackout.
- Identify the key players involved in the blackout.
- Describe the operational failures of FirstEnergy.
- Explain the MISO operational issues that contributed to the outage.
- Identify the vegetation issues that affected system reliability.
- Describe how computer failures contributed to the blackout.
- Explain the impact of operators losing situational awareness.
- Describe how generator outages affected system reliability.
- Explain how a TLR works.
- Describe the importance of an N-1 condition.
- Interpret the timeline of power flows leading up to the blackout.
- Explain the function of a state estimator.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 25 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 4 PDH
Length: 46 pages
