“Near misses” and “last minute contracts” is the way the system - and all electricity systems - is designed to operate.
has done a huge amount to modernise it’s balancing services, and I am struggling to understand whose agenda this is.
Two large power stations failed at the evening peak, when the system was already calling for more output/demand turndown. This was almost an occurrence of Titanic probabilities. You can of course contract for a huge amount of extra reserve but at immense cost to consumers.- Nigel Cornwall
We'll have to wait and see what emerges from Nat Grid's report to Ofgem and other enquiries. But I suspect the cost of ensuring adequate frequency control so a double generator trip doesn't result in outages of the sort that occurred last Friday would not be especially high. - Jeremy Nicolson
Yes, but there could be other things such as changing the frequency settings on relays, which could be cheaper. - Thomas Edwards
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/may/28/power.cuts
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