I am completely perplexed

Catfish · 09-09-19, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

We had a over-2-hour power blackout last week, Northern part and northern outer sectors of the city. This is Münster, district capitol, 380 thousand population, 2019. Third power blackout this year, though the other two were just less than a second. But it shows the stability of the powergrid is going down the drain. It goes like this since three years.

Well we did not have any blackout, not even for a split second according to online reports of the energy distributing centers. Despite some unpleasant "meteorologic disturbances". Also our main FI protection fuse blows in a split second, and there is a secondary power limiter switched between that and our home distributor.

OT:
Let me guess, your energy provider has been privatized?

Like with the "Bundesbahn", the state-built and tax-financed network is being "sold" to some private company for peanuts, so they take their present and the first thing they spare is maintenance to maximize profits.
And when the first dead hit the news and there is an uproar because of neglected care it is all being bought back for billions, and repaired by.. tax money!
And then the circle can start again

Skybird · 09-09-19, 03:47 AM

the westfälische nachrichten wrote about. northern parts of münster were affected, some more in fact than was written at the time. they qoted the police with saying that it as due to some "störung im hochspannungsnetz". it lasted from 1730 to 2000.

microblackouts of less than a second are indications for instabilities in maintaining grid voltage on equal levels, they stem from switching on and off reserves that create short spli second moments when spikes race through affected parts of the network when own production is not sufficient and neighbours powerplants must jump in. this gets centrally controlled, and such emergencies happen now every week due to unexpected shortcomings from regenerative power production: both overproduction - sun shining - and lack of (lacking wind). in this case oil and gas powerblocks must get activated, germany increasingly lacks the ability to react with that, and so power from other nations must fill the gap - leading to instabilities in these.

the grid stability is europe-wide declining since some years, especially in staes that directly border to germany.

there are activists websites documenting the performance of the grid daily. the majority of weeks in a year sees one or several emergencies of these kinds. this year alone they say germany escaped state wide blackouts just by narrowest margins of time.

government offices of course do not publish this loud in tne media. the energiewende must be narrated as a success.

09-09-19, 03:47 AM	#2
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,783 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	the westfälische nachrichten wrote about. northern parts of münster were affected, some more in fact than was written at the time. they qoted the police with saying that it as due to some "störung im hochspannungsnetz". it lasted from 1730 to 2000. microblackouts of less than a second are indications for instabilities in maintaining grid voltage on equal levels, they stem from switching on and off reserves that create short spli second moments when spikes race through affected parts of the network when own production is not sufficient and neighbours powerplants must jump in. this gets centrally controlled, and such emergencies happen now every week due to unexpected shortcomings from regenerative power production: both overproduction - sun shining - and lack of (lacking wind). in this case oil and gas powerblocks must get activated, germany increasingly lacks the ability to react with that, and so power from other nations must fill the gap - leading to instabilities in these. the grid stability is europe-wide declining since some years, especially in staes that directly border to germany. there are activists websites documenting the performance of the grid daily. the majority of weeks in a year sees one or several emergencies of these kinds. this year alone they say germany escaped state wide blackouts just by narrowest margins of time. government offices of course do not publish this loud in tne media. the energiewende must be narrated as a success. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.