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The Secretary of Defense shall require that black start exercises be conducted to assess the energy resilience and energy security of installations for periods established to evaluate the ability of the installation to perform critical missions without access to off-installation energy resources.
10 USC 2920: Energy resilience and energy security measures on military installations 2025
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A black start is fundamentally about restarting a power grid from a completely de-energized state. The analogy often made is jump-starting a car, albeit at a much greater scale and complexity.
From Darkness to Light: Iberia’s Rapid Grid Recovery Explained - CleanTechnica 2025
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Recovering from a total blackout would be an agonizing and tedious process, known as a “black start,” that could take weeks, or possibly months.
How Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster Clifford KraussManny FernandezIvan Penn and Rick Rojas 2021
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