1. Workshop – „Large Disturbances” – 27 August – Cigre Session Paris 2012 Workshop on Large Disturbances Agenda Monday, August 27th, 2012 14.30 – 18.00 Paris, Palais des Congrès, LE PALAIS Chair: Joachim Vanzetta (Amprion, SC C2 Chairman) 14.30 - 14.35: Introduction and Opening of Session 14.35 - 16.00: Disturbance Presentations and Discussions –Arizona-Southern California Outages 2011 (Anjan Bose, Washington State University) –Japan 2011 (Teruo Ohno, TEPCO) –Queensland Floods, Australia (Mark Miller, AEMO) –Brazil 2011 (Hermes Chipp, ONS) 16.00 - 16.30: Afternoon Break 16.30 - 17.50: Presentations and Discussions –Stable and security operation of Wind power in China (YAO Liangzhong, CEPRI) –The 50.2 Hz Problem in Germany (Patrick Wajant, TransnetBW) –Inter-Area Oscillations and Frequency Excursions in ENTSO-E Continental Europe (Rudolf Baumann and Walter Sattinger, Swissgrid / ENTSO-E RG CE) –WG C2.21 Report on Lessons learnt from emergencies and near misses (Ben Li, Convener WG C2.21) 17.50 - 18.00: Summary and Session Closing

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4. Workshop – „Large Disturbances” – 27 August – Cigre Session Paris 2012 Workshop on Large Disturbances The Indian Blackout 2012  2 Blackouts within 24 hours  1 st one on 30 July: 300 million people effected  2 nd one on 31 July: More than 700 million people effected  the largest blackout in global history in terms of the number of people effected, nearly 10 % of the world population  Three of the five country’s electricity grids failed  20 of India’s 28 states were effected, including the capital New Delhi  Nearly 48 GW of generation taken offline  Causes : overdrew of power, but no official reason published  Full restoration: after over 20 hours

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