A faulty relay protection system caused the electrical outage in part of New York over the weekend, the utility company says in its preliminary report
"That system detects electrical faults and directs circuit breakers to isolate and de-energize those faults," the company said in a statement."The relay protection system is designed with redundancies to provide high levels of reliability. In this case, primary and backup relay systems did not isolate a faulted 13,000-volt distribution cable at West 64th Street and West End Avenue.
"When you're talking about a city like New York, with a significant piece of the city basically suffering a blackout, that could be a very chaotic situation. We saw the exact opposite, actually. We saw New Yorkers at their best."Read MoreIt could take months to investigate why the outage happened, Con Edison President Timothy Cawley told reporters Sunday. The outage started Saturday at 6:47 p.m., and the lights were back on shortly after midnight, officials said.
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