[142451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Sun Jun 26 14:30:48 2011
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:27:13 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org, pelzi@pelzi.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> It makes little sense to sync to the grid when the generator is only
> used when the grid is down
I don't know what large DC do but at our large sites we normally get
power cheaper in exchange for a load shed agreement.
When we got the call we ran some/all of the load on generator so the
grid could flatten peaks.
At our tv/radio transmitter sites there were no UPS so a break would
disruptive. SOP was to run up the gens, sync then parallel the grid.
DC just treat it as a power failure with a short break on non UPS
service?
brandon
