Major power outage hits the country
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49300025

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And this is before that which cannot be named!

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Not nice if one is affected by it.

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Total non-sequitur. :rolleyes:

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Watford FC? :shrug:

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Reports are showing a dip in line frequency to below 49Hz. Unprecedented.

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No obvious effects here.

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Remember we're always only 4 missed meals from revolution and it's tea time already.

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Islamic terrorism? :confused:

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Give Katie Hopkins time on that one ;)

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I feel sorry for all those facebook/twitter users that have now lost all contact with civilization . . poor lost souls ;)

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Families will have to talk to each, other, maybe play charades.. . How nice for them ;)

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Civil disobedience in waiting if this happens. It'll be the end.

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Mended, generators back in service.

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Do you have a link for the fault?

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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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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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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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Traffic usually flows a lot quicker when that happens.

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Link

That's pretty widespread.

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Right wing terrorism*.

(*aka "lone wolf"...)

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

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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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It didn't like 49hz as much as the rest. ;)

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What makes you think they are ?

If a geneator (or two) fail, its not a case of just flicking a switch and another kicks in - it takes time.

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I can't be 100% sure of what National Grid have done - I imagine a number of generating sources are offline for summer maintenance. I thus suspect this has taken us close to capacity and voila widespread outage if two feeds go phut.

This shouldn't have happened with just two failures.

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If there is a power outage, on a grid or DNO scale, then there is power loss across everything regardless. Unless you have battery or generator back up.

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Was that all in Glasgow?

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It's the hospital back up genny that failed that's so scary.

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Easy, no wind = no power, too much wind = no power as they feather the blades.

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So you are claiming that traffic lights, airports, railways all had isolated power outages around the exact same time of day yet were unlinked because if it was a national issue my TV would have gone off?

The power supply didn’t fall to zero. It fell out of tolerance which could affect different items and parts of the network in ways. Some of it failing, some of it not.

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The Grid’s automatic protection against a drop in frequency is to cut power to one or more of the distribution networks connected to it. This is what caused such widespread disruption. Within any given distribution area, critical systems might have continued to function if they were equipped with a working backup power supply.

There are no reports of either of the main Scottish distribution networks being severed from the Grid last night, so I’d say traffic light failures in Glasgow were a coincidence, unconnected to the general failure at National Grid.

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No, I’m claiming what Chris said ^^^

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I suspect, like the water industry, since privatisation redundancy measures have been cut back to increase profitability.

It's viewed as an inefficient use of resources if something is unlikely or to seldom happen.

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"Hot potato, off his drawers, Puck will make amends!"

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Well that would be because it is.

For the same reason most people in the UK dont have Air Con.

The loss of two systems within minutes is a very rare occurance.
The cutoff plan kicked in as intended, power was restored within 45 minutes.

Perhaps you would prefer to pay more for your electricity to cover this rare occurance ?

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I’m still laughing at people going snowflake over the loss of power for a couple of hours. While it’s better here than it used to be, over the first 5-6 years here there would be a handful of power cuts every year, usually for an hour or more. If we get a really good storm, even these days, we can lose it for a couple of days. Twice, we’ve lost it for five.

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I think everyone may have forgotten the 3 day week when power cuts were a regular planned occurence. Also no TV after 10.30pm at the outset.

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Not me, I remember it very well.

My Dad worked at the CEGB (East Midlands) Grid Control, and was one of the engineers responsible for implementing the disconnection plan in the EM area.

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It wasn't all bad news. The pregnancy rate went up dramatically ! ;)

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Actually the pregnancy rate has been on a downward trend.;)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49192445

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Well, it is now, but Mr K was talking about the 1970s!

There's so little spare time for baby making these days! :erm:

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True. Blame streaming TV/3000 TV channels and video games ;) Also half the fertile population aren't up to it as they're so unfit. Hence our ageing population, and reliance on immigration, think on !

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The reasons for the outage are being featured in today's BBC news programmes. There is a suggestion that those responsible will be fined and those who lost out could be compensated

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Great, so those of us who were not affected will now have to cough up when the companies raise their prices to get back the money they are forced to pay out. :mad:

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I was not affected by this outage at all either.

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Nor us either..

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I was on my boat and the battery's went duff, i blame aliens.