Bringing the grid back from such a complete blackout can take hours to days, as sections of the grid are reconnected after a cascade scenario as seen with the 2003 blackout, or the rather similar ...

About 50 million people lost power Aug. 14, 2003, when a tree branch in Ohio ... and the system responded well," he said. The last big blackout in the United States took place almost exactly ...

(CNN) --Three transmission lines in Ohio apparently started a chain reaction that caused the widespread blackout across parts of the Northeast, Midwest and southern Canada, according to utility ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) --The FBI found no evidence of any type of terrorism or criminal hacking in its investigation of the August power blackout in the Northeast, but the threat of such action remains ...

Michael Legatt’s career defending the electricity grid started in the wake of the 2003 Northeast blackout and now winds its way into the MSES classroom. For a few minutes in 2003, Michael Legatt ...