Lessons From Recent Power Outages

[Andre Kesteloot]

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> News and opinions on sustainable power, cars, and climate	 July 18, 2012
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> Lessons From Recent Power Outages
> by Bill Sweet
> The cloud might be above it all, but the stuff upon which it rests clearly isn’t. On 6 July, a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms left 750 000 people without power in Northern Virginia and took out Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud server facility. This local weather event left Amazon cloud customers such as Netflix, Instagram, Perest, and Heroku without access to their databases for days, and made these services unavailable to Web users around the globe. Observers have rightly asked what can be done to improve the grid so that virtual systems aren’t so vulnerable to real-world events. Researchers are already on the case, with software for improved monitoring of transmission lines and a big smart-grid pilot project that will test networking, communication, and distribution-management tools in an effort to speed up identification of problems and the dispatch of technicians to trouble spots.
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