Study theme
New York provides a study of cascading failures inside a highly interconnected power system. Disturbances, protection behaviour, operator visibility, vegetation, reactive power and overloaded transmission corridors can propagate across regions.
Sources
Final Report on the August 14 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada
The 2003 Northeast blackout is a major modern case study in cascading grid failure.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandMedia/BlackoutFinal-Web.pdfU.S. Canada Power System Outage Task Force Blackout Information
https://www.energy.gov/oe/august-2003-blackoutNew York City Blackout of 1977
Open technical history and study material on the 1977 blackout.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/anatomy-of-a-blackouthttps://blackout.gmu.edu/events/the-new-york-city-blackout-of-1977/