Obelix   11 #1 Posted April 16, 2014 http://www.ssepd.co.uk/CustomerService/PowerCuts/PowerTrack/  Basically, north of Edinburgh/Glasgow - including all the islands, and Orkney and Shetland is turned off...  Someone somewhere has broken something really impressive - especially considering there is a lot of generation in that region. That's a grid failure on a large scale - good job it didn't cascade through the rest of the country. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
JFKvsNixon   11 #2 Posted April 16, 2014 http://www.ssepd.co.uk/CustomerService/PowerCuts/PowerTrack/ Basically, north of Edinburgh/Glasgow - including all the islands, and Orkney and Shetland is turned off...  Someone somewhere has broken something really impressive - especially considering there is a lot of generation in that region. That's a grid failure on a large scale - good job it didn't cascade through the rest of the country.  If I'm reading the map correctly, Southern England is experiencing problems as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
tzijlstra   11 #3 Posted April 16, 2014 Bloody heck, that is a big area to suffer a powercut...  Makes you wonder about the stability of the network... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
SpikeMac   10 #4 Posted April 16, 2014 It is 12 degrees up there. They won't need any power. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Tommo68   10 #5 Posted April 16, 2014 It is 12 degrees up there. They won't need any power.   Too true Spike  at -10 londoners hibernate geordies start looking for a jumper  and Scottish dairy cattle start wishing the person milking them was wearing gloves :-)  . . . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Anna B Â Â 1,401 #6 Posted April 16, 2014 If I'm reading the map correctly, Southern England is experiencing problems as well. Â You've got the map upside down.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Obelix   11 #7 Posted April 16, 2014 If I'm reading the map correctly, Southern England is experiencing problems as well.  There is a lot of generation there - Cruachan peaking plant for example, and Longannet... so with a grid failure that's all offline. So the load furthest from the large generation, which at the moment is Torness and Drax may get shed so I'd expect the south coast to be having problems until they can get more plant online. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...