TY - RPRT KW - Energy Markets and Policy Department KW - Power interruptions KW - Transmission system reliability KW - Transmission reliability KW - Power Outage Study Team KW - Electricity reliability AU - Kevin Stamber AU - Paula Scalingi AU - Craig Zimmerman AU - Chris DeMarco AU - Thomas J Overbye AU - Regina Griego AU - Ian Hiskens AU - William Buehring AU - Fernando L Alvarado AU - Vikram S Budhraja AU - Anthony Como AU - Joseph H Eto AU - John F Hauer AU - John D Kueck AU - Philip Overholt AU - Richard Schuler AU - Robert J Thomas AU - Anjan Bose AB -

The electric power industry is in the midst of evolutionary change. The reliability events during the summer of 1999 (i.e., outages in New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, the Delmarva [Delaware-Maryland-Virginia] Peninsula, the South-Central States, and Chicago and nonoutage power disturbances in New England and the Mid-Atlantic area) demonstrate that the necessary operating practices, regulatory policies, and technological tools for dealings with the changes are not yet in place to assure an acceptable level of reliability. In a restructured environment, generation technologies and prices are a matter of private choice, yet the reliability of the delivery system benefits everyone. The operation of the electric system is more difficult to coordinate in a competitive environment, where a much larger number of parties are participating.

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The electric power industry is in the midst of evolutionary change. The reliability events during the summer of 1999 (i.e., outages in New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, the Delmarva [Delaware-Maryland-Virginia] Peninsula, the South-Central States, and Chicago and nonoutage power disturbances in New England and the Mid-Atlantic area) demonstrate that the necessary operating practices, regulatory policies, and technological tools for dealings with the changes are not yet in place to assure an acceptable level of reliability. In a restructured environment, generation technologies and prices are a matter of private choice, yet the reliability of the delivery system benefits everyone. The operation of the electric system is more difficult to coordinate in a competitive environment, where a much larger number of parties are participating.

PB - U.S Department of Energy PY - 2000 TI - Interim Report of the U.S. Department of Energy's Power Outage Study Team Findings from the Summer of 1999 ER -