Feds blame 6 groups for 2011 blackout

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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/feb/04/violations-southwest-power-outage/



Feds blame 6 groups for 2011 blackout
By Morgan Lee
3:06 p.m.Feb. 4, 2014

Federal energy regulators have issued notices to several organizations they say violated electric reliability standards during the September 2011 blackout that left more than 7 million residents without electricity, from San Diego County to western Arizona and Tijuana.

The Office of Enforcement at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a notice for alleged violations and corresponding investigations against six utilities and grid managers in California and Arizona, a commission spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

Possible outcomes of enforcement actions for reliability violations include orders to pay penalties and to take corrective action. The notices have led to at least one settlement offer.

A botched maintenance procedure at a transmission switch yard outside Yuma touched off the blackout amid a heatwave and heavy power demands on the afternoon of Sept. 8, 2011. Over an 11 minute period, the power failure cascaded to the California coast, leaving the entire San Diego Gas & Electric service area without power as night fell.

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1. k&r - thanks - San Onofre Nuclear Plant was fucking useless in this crisis - good riddance to it! nt