[142441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Sun Jun 26 00:44:51 2011
In-Reply-To: <2D0AF14BA6FB334988BC1F5D4FC38CB8020834A25B@EXCHMBX.hq.nac.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:44:36 -0400
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net> wrote=
:
> At least here in JCPL territory (northern NJ), closed transition is frown=
ed upon. Too much risk, they think. They are correct, really, but the risk =
is mostly yours. If you lock to the utility out-of-phase, you will surely l=
ose and they will surely win. The fault you create that they will see will =
probably not hurt them. Unless it is extraordinarily large and you are very=
close to the nearest substation.
Utilities concern themselves with not only their gear and your gear,
but also your neighbor's gear. I would not like to be next-door to a
large genset that is connected to the grid out-of-phase. My equipment
would be affected by such an event.
--=20
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
