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I think it would be difficult to protect ANY distributed power system from what happened in the US....
The station that caused it sent out an EM Spike on the power grid, this tripped out other systems on that part of the main power grid, and took down a part of the network, this caused a cascade failure in other key power stations, leaving other power stations trying to supply to a demand far exceeding their supply capability.
In the UK in a similar situation we would have problems too...
Incidentally, I took a tour of the Denbigh Hydro station a few years back... Nice setup, "Electric Mountain" as they call it.
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