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big enough blip to get me 5 hours callout
Our guys were lucky, most of our systems reset. A few needed phone support.
big enough blip to get me 5 hours callout
you made that stretch or you travelled along way best I ever did was a lighning strike on a house in Middlesbrough it blasted all the wiring to bits so I just took out the cutout fuse and took the mains tails out .8 houses in the street rcd tripped and they all phoned in to the housing association all I did was re set them plugged a socket tester in and said wirings fine each call out 50 quid each 450 quid in 2 hours . that onl;y ever happened oncebig enough blip to get me 5 hours callout
Looks like a generating station failed, the frequency dropped tripping a wind plant, the frequency dropped before load balancing quick starting plant started up, causing the grid to automatically drop the load to stabilise the rest of the grid.Does anyone know what actually caused it..
Russian or Chinese hacking ..?
Norfolk ok - for a change
Maybe if I didn't live alone - and it'd be too dark to go hunting......
Looks like a generating station failed, the frequency dropped tripping a wind plant, the frequency dropped before load balancing quick starting plant started up, causing the grid to automatically drop the load to stabilise the rest of the grid.
https://theenergyst.com/national-grid-two-generators-cause-big-frequency-drop/
This is a problem the grid needs to address as we become less reliant on thousands of tones of inertia from big old spinning turbines.
View attachment 188715 View attachment 188716 View attachment 188717 Lights here, Wiltshire.
I am ready.
is Norfolk on the National Grid now?
Yes They are on the national candle supply route now.
Gas in the next 10 years.
i once had a cheese sandwich in Cromer.
They are familiar with gas. [1]
[1] Lactose intolerance
you made that stretch or you travelled along way best I ever did was a lighning strike on a house in Middlesbrough it blasted all the wiring to bits so I just took out the cutout fuse and took the mains tails out .8 houses in the street rcd tripped and they all phoned in to the housing association all I did was re set them plugged a socket tester in and said wirings fine each call out 50 quid each 450 quid in 2 hours . that onl;y ever happened once
The bbc mentioned 2 minutes gap between the two generation sources going off line. Although no mention of how long after that before they started to turn things off.
I guess this is the perfect scenario for large scale battery banks or flywheel storage, I think the pumped storage in Wales and at Ben Cruachan take 2 or 3 mins to get to full output.
Wind farm AND a power station going offline at the same time apparently, but it’s only the wind farm that’s the problem?Battery banks?
The biggest in the World would provide power for Britain for about 1 second!
This outage has been caused by a windfarm. There was loads of wind power so the gas stations were turned off. In South Australia they are now paying gas stations to stay online even when they don't need to. And yet they claim they are helping the environment
There is NO way of storing all the power from wind. IF there was I would be in favour of it but there isn't!
Wind farm AND a power station going offline at the same time apparently, but it’s only the wind farm that’s the problem?