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Some of the Worst Blackouts in History

Some of the Worst Blackouts in History

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Some of the Worst Blackouts in History

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  1. Some of theWorstBlackouts in History Daniel Mendoza Herrera 208035

  2. ColombianBlackout 2007 • The worst blackout in the history of Colombia, occurred on April 26, 2007, which affected 25 million people, leaving large economic losses. This blackout was caused by human error, an operator did not follow the correct sequence of operations when transferingload from one busbarto another.

  3. Torca substationarrengement

  4. Substationsaround Bogotá

  5. IndianBlackout 2012 • The July 31, 2012, occurred in India, the worst blackout in the history of the world due to a failure in the power supply in this country, leaving more than 600 million people without energy. In the states of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jammu and Kashmir were affected. It made 8.000 MW unaviable.

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  7. Brasil and Paraguay, Blackout 2009 • On November 10, 2009 took place in Brazil and Paraguay, one of the largest power outages in its history, leaving 40 % of the Brazilian population without power. • This blackout affected 90 % of Paraguayan population.

  8. Blackout in UnitedStates2003 • This blackout was caused by a voltage surge for 12 seconds, generating cascaded output of more than 100 generation plants in 8 states of United States and Canada. It left about 60 MW out of service

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  10. Before of theBlackout After of theBlackout

  11. Blackout in Panama2013 • Due a burning dry grass, there was a fault in the transmission line from the substation, this overloaded the other power plants, which began to collapse one by one. Over ninety percent of the Panamanian population was affected. The blackoutlasted about five hours.

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  13. References http://www.pacw.org/fileadmin/doc/AutumnIssue09/Columbia_Blackout_autumn09.pdf http://www.conocimiento.allianz.com.ar/energia/?697/apagones http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/the-smarter-grid/northern-india-recovering-from-huge-blackout http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/EmergencyPrep/blackout2003/ http://www.laprensa.com.pa/impreso/panorama/apagon-causo-caos-en-el-pais/159700 http://www.laestrella.com.pa/online/noticias/2013/02/25/quema-de-canaverales-en-el-ingenio-santa-rosa-causa-apagon-etesa.asp

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