That sounds a bit extreme. Keep in mind that the US is broadly split into the Ea...

		7thaccount on April 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Loss of power grid automatic control due to softwa... That sounds a bit extreme. Keep in mind that the US is broadly split into the Eastern and Western Interconnect where the East is a much more dense network compared to the West. Also there is ERCOT (Texas) which only connects to the East and West through DC tie substations. The acronym is SCADA too.

Quebec Canada is like that: it’s own system, and only interconnected through HVDC links.