HOUSTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A widespread electric blackout affecting South Florida has been controlled and power is being restored, a spokeswoman for an agency that oversees the high-voltage network of transmission lines said on Tuesday afternoon.
Linda Campbell of the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council said preliminary reports showed that a problem at a substation in Dade County led to the loss of a transmission line and the shutdown of power plants owned by Florida Power & Light, a unit of FPL Group.
About 2,500 megawatts of generation was lost, she said, triggering an emergency program designed to cut power consumption to keep the overall electric system in balance.
“The load-shedding program worked,” Campbell said.
Power is now being restored slowly by utilities across the state, she said.
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