This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.
The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.
The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency
I'd be surprised if anything happened in more serious parts of Europe. Although given how they've been wrecking the power system, I guess I shouldn't be. It's like the man who is at the brink but thinks nothing's wrong because nothing has happened yet.
I find it funny that people keep messing with working systems until they no longer work.
I will make one additional note to that. Europe is always seconds away from a continent-wide blackout, every day, at the same time.
It happens when everyone in England simultaneously turns on all of their kettles all at the same time. Boiling water is some of the most energy intensive mundane things a person can do, and when you multiply that by the population of England, the entire continent's grid (for just a few minutes every day) goes into crisis mode, drawing power from basically every square inch of available energy that can be used. Once everyone boils their tea, the power draw in England collapses, and everyone has to shut everything down. Honestly, they could probably do with a nuclear plant just for tea time.
Now, add in crippling beuracratic retardation, central planning in multiple states, green energy suicide, and "new europeans" ripping out copper from active power lines, and we can see why most of the continent seems like it's on the verge of collapse.
This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.
The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.
The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency
source:
https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1916914966663434493
I'd be surprised if anything happened in more serious parts of Europe. Although given how they've been wrecking the power system, I guess I shouldn't be. It's like the man who is at the brink but thinks nothing's wrong because nothing has happened yet.
I find it funny that people keep messing with working systems until they no longer work.
I suspect its more than just basic negligence or lack of maintenance.
Oddly enough nova scotia power is reporting they were hacked, but being tight lipped about what exactly.
I will make one additional note to that. Europe is always seconds away from a continent-wide blackout, every day, at the same time.
It happens when everyone in England simultaneously turns on all of their kettles all at the same time. Boiling water is some of the most energy intensive mundane things a person can do, and when you multiply that by the population of England, the entire continent's grid (for just a few minutes every day) goes into crisis mode, drawing power from basically every square inch of available energy that can be used. Once everyone boils their tea, the power draw in England collapses, and everyone has to shut everything down. Honestly, they could probably do with a nuclear plant just for tea time.
Now, add in crippling beuracratic retardation, central planning in multiple states, green energy suicide, and "new europeans" ripping out copper from active power lines, and we can see why most of the continent seems like it's on the verge of collapse.
(Shrug)
During the 2003 Blackout, frequency on the NY west and NY east grid got between 63 and 57 hz before it started triggering Zone 3 impedance relays.