Posted on 12/29/2020 10:20:30 PM PST by ransomnote
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported that the electricity cut that occurred in several cities in the country, mainly in Mexico City and the State of Mexico, affected 10.3 million users due to a low frequency throughout the national territory, caused by outlets of power plants.
The national power company CFE added that at 2:52 p.m. the restoration of affected users began and is subject to the instructions of the National Energy Control Commission (Cenace), which must guarantee the security of the National Electric System.
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I am going to guess that they mean Plant Outages.
Wouldn’t surprise me to know it’s Mexicans tapping into the grid themselves. They tap into gasoline pipelines all the time.
Good God what a lawless sh!thole Mexico is.
That's how Mexicans power their marijuana grow houses. Can't expect drug cartels to pay for their own power.
It’s called tuesday... in mexico
Probably the grid frequency started to go significantly below 60Hz. To much load on the system for the power available. Most generators will trip on low frequency. I’ve seen charts tracking system frequency before. When Comanche peak in Texas would trip the system frequency would get as low as 58.5, half way to tripping my customers generators.
It could be a casdade of power plants tripping off-line like the Great Blackout of 2003.
That was caused by one power plant unexpectedly tripped off-line when a high tension line contacted a tree. Then the failure of interconnection breakers to isolate the fault caused other plants to trip off in series.
In the end the blackout extended from New York to Michigan and in to Canada.
Meanwhile, life must go on. Hey meester, you wan my seester? She is a virgin - the line starts over there...
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