At dusk on 9 November 1965 a faulty protective relay at the Adam Beck station in Ontario tripped a 230 kilovolt line, and the failure cascaded through the interconnected grid, blacking out all of New York State, parts of seven neighboring states and much of Ontario and Quebec: thirty million people, 800,000 of them in the New York subways. Power came back overnight. The blackout created the modern reliability institutions, among them the Northeast Reliability Council and the New York Power Pool, and it taught the industry that an interconnected grid fails as one machine.
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Milestone Year Milestone Date LocationNortheastern United States, Ontario and Quebec, Canada 1 Connections
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All together, 30 million people in eight U.S. states and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec were affected by the blackout. During the night, power was gradually restored to the blacked-out areas, and by morning power had been restored throughout the Northeast.
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The blackout, which lasted for about 14 hours, was caused by a faulty relay in the Adam Beck Station of Ontario, Canada.
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The Northeast Reliability Council and New York Power Pool were two regulatory organizations that emerged after the blackout
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The Northeast Reliability Council and New York Power Pool were two regulatory organizations that emerged after the blackout
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The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the United States.
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