Finding the power grid’s groove | Yukon News
Power outages have almost become an everyday occurrence for Yukoners and their businesses.
In the last eight days, we’ve had three of them. The first, on December 10, lasted for more than 30 minutes and shut down the southern Yukon grid.
Then, on Saturday morning and Monday evening, the power went out again. This time the outages lasted a few seconds and only affected parts of Whitehorse.
There’s been at least seven unplanned outages this year, according to brief survey of news reports.
That’s coming off the heels of a busy 2008, when the lights went out 35 times. Half of the outages were caused by faulty equipment, the rest were caused by nature.
So why do we have so many outages? Why do some last hours while others last seconds?
Thursday, December 24, 2009
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