[GTALUG] Dirty Power and Wi Fi Far field effect

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 07:32:22PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Some very big interconnects disconnected due to overloading.  This left
> the grid in three isolated parts, one with over supply, one with under
> supply and one that was pretty well balanced on its own.
> 
> It was all triggered by a misconfigured main link where one end had
> different limits configured than the other end, so one end thought
> shutting down a parallel line would be fine, but the other end tripped
> due to misconfigured limits for the line, which then dropped all the
> load on yet other lines, which then tripped, and bye bye grid.
> Fortunately it only took about 45 minutes to restore everything.

If interested, read this:
http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/2008/12/13/the-day-wind-power-nearly-blew-out-europe/

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Len Sorensen