In electrical engineering, forced outage is the shutdown condition of a power station, transmission line or distribution line when the generating unit is unavailable to produce power due to unexpected breakdown. Forced outage can be caused by equipment failures, disruption in the power plant fuel supply chain, operator error etc. ==Forced outage r...
unplanned outage whose onset, automatic or manual, cannot be deferred NOTE - See figure191-24.outage due to the unscheduled putting out of service of an item