A Grid-Sized Game of Telephone
What Sunday’s Outage Revealed About Transmission, Load Shedding, and Grid Coordination On Sunday, May 25, more than 125,000 Louisiana households experienced brief but widespread power outages. It wasn’t a hurricane or a lightning strike. In fact, the weather was relatively calm. The culprit? A regional reliability directive known as a load shed order, triggered by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)…
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