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Energy and Natural Resources (Canada-U.S. Relations)


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 electri