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Squiggly Lines. The first hint that the Northeast's huge CANUSE (for Canadian-U.S. Eastern interconnection) power grid was in trouble came at 5:16 p.m. Moving clockwise, millions of kilowatts of electricity were coursing through the vast network of cables to meet the early-evening needs of the Western Hemisphere's most heavily populated, most power-dependent region. In the humming central control room of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, ink pens tracing the flow of power suddenly shuddered. At the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. on the other side of Lake Ontario, the dials on a wall lurched...
Cambridge relies on circuit breakers elsewhere in the grid to protect it from a major power drain. Atkinson explained. "There could be more regulatory devices but they'd have to be planned for the whole system," he added...
Private power companies also lack the means for making major changes in the grid, according to Harold Atkinson, vice-president and general manager of the Cambridge Electric Light Co. "If there was another failure, we could restore service an hour earlier than we did last Tuesday," Atkinson said yesterday. "But this is about the extent of what we can do by ourselves...
Joseph C. Swidler, chairman of the Federal Power Commission, said yesterday that the FPC has no authority to make major changes in the electric grid whose failure plunged the Northeast into darkness last week...
...about 5 p.m. two high-power lines, perhaps in the Rochester-Syracuse area, faulted simultaneously. Generators in surrounding areas, all linked in the same power grid, automatically tried to supply the missing electricity...