{"id":1127,"date":"2026-10-04T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/the-blackout-behind-the-blackout-what-sarnias-2003-outages-reveal-about-restart-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:45:47","slug":"the-blackout-behind-the-blackout-what-sarnias-2003-outages-reveal-about-restart-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/the-blackout-behind-the-blackout-what-sarnias-2003-outages-reveal-about-restart-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blackout Behind the Blackout: What Sarnia\u2019s 2003 Outages Reveal About Restart Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restoring customer supply is not the same event as restoring a process plant. Sarnia\u2019s 2003 outages show why power-system resilience has to be carried through safe shutdown, utilities, environmental controls, and staged restart. The Grid Event Was Only the First Failure State At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the Northeast blackout began to pull [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/the-blackout-behind-the-blackout-what-sarnias-2003-outages-reveal-about-restart-risk\/\">The Blackout Behind the Blackout: What Sarnia\u2019s 2003 Outages Reveal About Restart Risk<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"740\" height=\"492\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Fig1-StockSnap-transmission-distribution-t&amp;d\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fig1-stocksnap-transmission-distribution-td.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fig1-stocksnap-transmission-distribution-td.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fig1-stocksnap-transmission-distribution-td-300x199.jpg 300w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoring customer supply is not the same event as restoring a process plant. Sarnia\u2019s 2003 outages show why power-system resilience has to be carried through safe shutdown, utilities, environmental<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}