Load loss

Load loss
(3 hours)
  Any significant incident on an electric utility system that results in a continuous outage of 3 hours or longer to more than 50,000 customers or more than one half ofthe total customers being served immediately prior to the incident, whichever is less.
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary

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