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Re: Major power outage hits the country

Fine in the North, obviously affecting the South, which as you know according to the BBC, Sky etc = the whole country.

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Traffic lights went out in Glasgow.

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36005497)

And this is before that which cannot be named!

What? Macbeth?

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36005516)

Fine in the North, obviously affecting the South, which as you know according to the BBC, Sky etc = the whole country.

If you call Rutland "the South".

This was around 16:45 and ended c. 17:05.

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36005522)

What? Macbeth?

I was only playing but I think my favourite reply was Watford. :)

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Foretaste of what's to come when people return home and plug in their electric cars.

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 36005515)

Do you have a link for the fault?

https://www.theguardian.com/business...h-east-england

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36005517)

Traffic lights went out in Glasgow.

Ooooh. Just the traffic lights? Can hardly be described as a major power outage then.

Possibly a isolated fault due to the weather. I would expect a major power issue with the national grid to impact more than “traffic lights”

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36005517)

Traffic lights went out in Glasgow.

Traffic usually flows a lot quicker when that happens.

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Link

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Blackouts were reported across the South East, South West and North East of England, the Midlands and Wales.

That's pretty widespread.

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36005497)

And this is before that which cannot be named!

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Originally Posted by Ramrod (Post 36005505)

Islamic terrorism? :confused:

Right wing terrorism*.

(*aka "lone wolf"...)

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36005529)

I don’t see why you have to insert quotation marks around traffic lights. That’s what they are. I also doubt they are plugged into the same domestic mains supply as homes nearby, but happy to be proven wrong. How different parts of the network coped with the dip will vary depending on many factors in the infrastructure.

It would be a bizarre coincidence for it to happen at the exact same time the entire grid experienced problems and be unrelated.

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36005537)

It would be a bizarre coincidence for it to happen at the exact same time the entire grid experienced problems and be unrelated.

So that's why one of the eight lamps in the kitchen was out when I got home this evening? ;)

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36005529)

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Passengers were shut out of some of the country’s busiest train stations during the Friday evening rush hour, while hundreds of thousands of homes were left without electricity after what the National Grid described as a problem with two generators.

The British Transport police said officers were asked to help as services on the east coast mainline were suspended, with many customers being advised not to travel; and London’s Euston station, the southern hub for the west coast mainline, was closed because of “exceptionally high passenger numbers”. The outage was reportedly also affecting other rail services and traffic lights.

Shortly before 6.30pm, a National Grid spokesperson said the generator issues had caused “loss of power in selected UK areas”. The spokesperson said the issue was “now resolved” and the system had returned to normal

About 500,000 customers in Wales, south-west England and the Midlands were affected and 300,000 customers in south-east England were left without power, the local distributors said. A further 110,000 in Yorkshire and north-east England were affected, alongside about 26,000 in north-west England, according to the electricity distributors in those areas.

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They lost a couple of generators, meaning the load was too great for the remaining supply to handle - so the disconnection plan kicked in to shed the load until they could fix it - all pretty statndard stuff. The only real question is why did two fail, at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Paul M (Post 36005547)

And the other question is why they are running so close to capacity?