Hines, Paul; Apt, Jay; Talukdar, Sarosh - In: Energy Policy 37 (2009) 12, pp. 5249-5259
Using data from the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) for 1984-2006, we find several trends. We find that the frequency of large blackouts in the United States has not decreased over time, that there is a statistically significant increase in blackout frequency during peak hours...