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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11482)	11/23/2010 11:50:25 AM
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A National Lab Develops Grid Controls to Handle Renewable Energy By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire Published: November 23, 2010 RICHLAND, Wash. -- In an experimental control room at the Energy Department's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), small blips dart left and right on a display screen, recording distant signals from key points on the Western high-voltage grid at 30 times each second. Should the blips migrate past a security boundary on the display, an alarm would immediately warn that the grid was in jeopardy. Such an early alert could have helped operators avoid the 1996 Western power blackout, which knocked out 30,000 megawatts of power -- equivalent to darkening 30 cities the size of Seattle. The advanced monitors in PNNL's Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center (EIOC) could also have averted or at least minimized the 2003 Northeast blackout, which cut off power to 50 million people, says Carl Imhoff, PNNL's electricity infrastructure manager. nytimes.com