I stumbled across a paper by B.A. Carreras of Oak Ridge National Labs that was presented in January 2003 at an IEEE conference in Hawaii (International Conference on System Science).
http://www.computer.org/proceedings/hicss/1874/track2/187420065babs.htm
It speaks to probabilities of large...
Is this report of interest to the current discussion? [I think it might be, but I am just getting up to speed here.]
http://www.selinc.com/techpprs/6141.pdf
It is about a Mexican blackout in February 2002 that was monitored and documented and evidently included effects that were novel.
As a newbie here, I went right away to http://www.nautilus.org/energy/grid/papers/bickel.pdf
and there is a rather interesting point to be found about nuclear plant standards.
It appears that U.S. plants are predicated on the availability of reliable shared power from the grid, precisely...
In the reference http://pro.energycentral.com/professional/news/power/news_article.cfm?id=4087012
there are these two paragraphs at the end:
Even before last week's blackout, federal regulators were keeping close tabs on the way power is managed in the Midwest.
Since May, the Federal Energy...
