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Company
fingered in blackout investigation says they're
not to blame
Washington-AP -- FirstEnergy Corporation, at
the center of the search for answers in last
week's massive blackout, says the problem goes
far beyond its power lines. A spokesman for
the Ohio utility says company data showed
strange fluctuations of voltage in the the
Midwest power grid as early as noon on Thursday,
more than three hours before the FirstEnergy
lines failed.
That claim has not been confirmed. One
investigator says the outages began in Ohio, but
that any attempt to identify a specific cause at
this point would be "speculative and premature."
As of last night, all systems were
operating reliably, but today marks the first
true test as industries and workers get back to
business.
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