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Electric Reliability Standards: After the 2003 Blackout
  • Following the 2003 blackout, which was the largest blackout in North American history, a joint US-Canada Power System Outage Task Force recommended that Canada and the US government should establish mandatory and enforceable reliability standards to prevent a disaster like this from happening again.
  • This publication discusses how the two countries' governments worked together to develop and implement these standards along with the possible risks facing the electricity grids in the future.
Citation

Canada. Energy and Mines Ministers' Conference. After the Blackout: implementation of Mandatory Electric Reliability Standards in Canada. [Halifax, Nova Scotia], 2015. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2015/rncan-nrcan/M34-25-1-2015-eng.pdf

Overlapping Topics
Energy and Natural Resources
Policy Type
Ministerial Conference Report