Rotating feeder outages helps lessen the impact to everyone in general. Emergency services and hospitals are the last to go. It’s an effort to reduce the chance of a full on blackout. Demand tonight will be roughly 20,000 MW above capacity so we have to shed load to keep the frequency from deviating too far from 60Hz. If the generators become unstable everything cascades. The Obama admin had a big role in this with pricing coal plants out of existence and wind is too unstable. The next 24hrs will be critical
Rotating feeder outages helps lessen the impact to everyone in general. Emergency services and hospitals are the last to go. It’s an effort to reduce the chance of a full on blackout. Demand tonight will be roughly 20,000 MW above capacity so we have to shed load to keep the frequency from deviating too far from 60Hz. If the generators become unstable everything cascades. The Obama admin had a big role in this with pricing coal plants out of existence and wind is too unstable. The next 24hrs will be critical
That’s what happens when you rely on the wind and sun for power.