Dive Summary:

• In the wake of last night's 34-minute Super Bowl power outage fiasco, Entergy and SMG, the company in charge of the Superdome, announced that an "abnormality" took place at the intersection of Entergy's electric feed and stadium equipment, making a breaker cause the outage; it is unclear what the "abnormality" was or why it occurred.
• [UPDATE] In an Oct. 15 memo prepared by state officials for the Lousiana Stadium and Exposition District (LSED), which is responsible for the Superdome, Entergy New Orleans and the Superdome's engineering staff noted that tests on the stadium's electrical feeders sparked concerns about reliability and revealed "a chance of failure."
• The outage does not seem to be related to the $600,000 renovation of the stadium's electrical system that followed in the wake of the memo, in which decaying feeder cables connected to Entergy's transmission lines were replaced, said Larry Roedel, a lawyer for LSED.
• At the time of the outage, meters registered that the Superdome was taking in less power than a typical New Orleans Saints game, said Doug Thornton, manager of the Superdome; he added that none of the upgraded electrical equipment failed and that the halftime show did not have anything to do with the outage as it used a separate generator.

From the article:

"... Entergy and the company that manages the Superdome, SMG, said Sunday that an "abnormality" occurred where stadium equipment intersects with an Entergy electric feed, causing a breaker to create the outage. It remained unclear Monday exactly what the abnormality was or why it occurred.

But Doug Thornton, manager of the Superdome, said that when the power outage hit, meters indicated the stadium was drawing less power than it does during a typical New Orleans Saints game. ..."