ICT and the Deregulation of the Electric Power Industry: A Story of an Architect's New Tool: Klashner

Interviewer: It must be fairly expensive to, to drop load and then have to bring an area back up.
Supervisor: Well, I don't know if you read the paper, but politically it's a very difficult, it's becoming a less of an acceptable thing to happen. I mean, you know, in the 60s when the whole system was being developed, or even before that in the 50s. Umm, dropping a city and, and picking it up hours or days later wasn't a big deal. It happened quite often. But, people have come to expect a higher level of reliability than people expected in the 50s or 60s today than they expect.
Interviewer: And why do you think that is?
Supervisor: People are more reliant or dependent on the wall sockets. [Laughter] And electric lights than they used to be. Umm, with computers and everything else that people expect; electric devices are useless. I don't know if you have ever, I don't know if you have ever been home on the weekend when your power has been out? How, how it feels?
Interviewer: Right.
Supervisor: What you can and cannot do.