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Rotating Blackouts

When each set of distribution feeders is interrupted for a limited time and then rotated among individual feeders.

Definition by NERC

Source: 1

When each set of distribution feeders is interrupted for a limited time, typically 20–30 minutes, and then those feeders are put back in service and another set is interrupted, and so on, rotating the outages among individual feeders.

Last modified: 2025-06-19

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  1. NERC (2013). Reliability Terminology. http://web.archive.org/web/20250401183750/https://www.nerc.com/aboutnerc/documents/terms%20aug13.pdf ↩