President Bush was having lunch with troops at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station when Joe Hagin, his deputy chief of staff, told him of the massive blackout on the East Coast.
The massive blackout on Aug. 14, 2003, exposed many flaws in the nation's fragile power grid.
The Indian power system underwent two separate massive blackouts on 30th and 31st of July 2012.
As chance would have it, a few days before my meeting with Flanagan and Chesa Boudin, New York suffered a massive blackout, instantly recalling memories of the assault on the Twin Towers.
In the wake of the massive blackout that hit the U.S. in the early 2000s and decades of concerns around failing energy infrastructure in the U.S., the notion of having some way to respond more flexibly to changes in demand from the grid seemed to make sense.
Since the massive blackout that wracked the east coast of the United States and large parts of Canada back in 2003, there has been a tremendous amount of conversation about the development of a "smart grid" that will provide a safe, reliable, efficient and resilient energy infrastructure.
It's been nine years since the massive blackout that darkened the Northeast and Midwest of the United States and parts of Canada.
Given the inherent factors in the Indian power system, even without the actual trigger of the first massive blackout (i.e., power line trip), similar massive failures are bound to occur.
A massive blackout has hit Puerto Rico after a fire broke out at one of the island's main electricity plants, leaving almost half of the US territory's 3.5 million inhabitants without power.
"The incident came uncomfortably close to causing a shutdown of a critical substation which could have resulted in a massive blackout in California and elsewhere in the West".
