Outages of electric power supply resulting from cable failures Boston Edison Company system

• Main Author: None
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC CABLES; FAILURES; HVAC SYSTEMS; OUTAGES; HVDC SYSTEMS; MASSACHUSETTS; POWER DISTRIBUTION; UNDERGROUND POWER TRANSMISSION; URBAN AREAS; AC SYSTEMS; CABLES; CONDUCTOR DEVICES; DC SYSTEMS; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC REGION; POWER SYSTEMS; POWER TRANSMISSION; USA; Back Bay; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5083196; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5083196; https://doi.org/10.2172/5083196

Factual data are provided regarding 5 electric power supply interruptions that occurred in the Boston Metropolitan area during April to June, 1979. Common to all of these outages was the failure of an underground cable as the initiating event, followed by multiple equipment failures. There was signi...