electrical power distribution backgrounder

[Carl Tollander]

This looks like a pretty nice backgrounder on the electric power
regulatory world.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blackout/regulation/timeline.h
tml

Quite apart from any technical feasibility of peer power generation,
implementation
would need to take the historical economic, political and social impacts
on electrical power distribution into account.

There are a lot of nice links from the site to state efforts.  The NM link
is instructive.

Carl

[Roger Critchlow-2]

Well, no one else has blamed MSBlaster for last week's black out, yet,
but this article in The Register,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32425.html, notes that the
Slammer worm did get into one of FirstEnergy's nuclear power plant
control systems in January and shut down the plant's warning systems for
5 hours.  No harm done since the plant had already been shut down for 11
months to fix a nasty hole in the reactor containment vessel.

Are you sure you want a distributed power system?

-- rec --

[Bruce Sawhill]

Distributed power needs distributed control and distributed safeguards.
  It can work, but since constraints propagate at the speed of light, it
requires some careful thinking.

Bruce

On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 09:28 AM, Roger E Critchlow Jr wrote:

> Well, no one else has blamed MSBlaster for last week's black out, yet,
> but this article in The Register,
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32425.html, notes that the
> Slammer worm did get into one of FirstEnergy's nuclear power plant
> control systems in January and shut down the plant's warning systems
> for 5 hours.  No harm done since the plant had already been shut down
> for 11 months to fix a nasty hole in the reactor containment vessel.
>
> Are you sure you want a distributed power system?
>
> -- rec --
>
>
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