Dive Summary:
- S&C Electric Co., manufacturer of the relay equipment blamed for the infamous Super Bowl blackout, claims its product worked as expected during the game and that Entergy's operation of the device was at fault.
- S&C Electric Co. asserted its experts deduced the blackout was "a result of the electric load current exceeding the trip setting for the switchgear relay as set by the system operators."
- Michael J. S. Edmonds, vice president of strategic solutions for S&C Electric Co., said, "Based on the onsite testing, we have determined that if higher settings had been applied, the equipment would not have disconnected the power."
From the article:
"... Entergy officials wouldn't confirm or deny the claim. In a statement, the company said subsequent tests conducted by S&C and Entergy on the Dome's two relays showed "one relay functioned as expected and the other relay did not."
'We will continue to do more testing but we believe that we have zeroed in on the device that caused the outage, and we have removed it from service,' said Michael Burns, a utility spokesman. ..."