Posted on 03/11/2019 1:45:09 PM PDT by catnipman
On Thursday, the San Geronimo B substation in the center of the country, which supplies electricity to four out of five Venezuelans from the massive Guri hydropower plant, went down.
No date has been set to restart the plant and most workers were told to stay home on Monday
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Other experts, including Mr. Aguilar, said the magnitude of the blackout indicated the problem was caused by a major failure inside Guris turbines. A Corpoelec supervisor involved in dispatching Guris power said he was told by the plants managers on Thursday that the plants equipment was damaged.
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Mr. Aguilar ... said the government has tried to restart Guri four times since the start of the blackout on Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Put your faith in socialism. It will save you.
If the damage to any of the turbines is extensive then I don't see them getting that back up and running without a great deal of help from the U.S. or someone with the civil engineering know how to fix it and that would take months or longer.
It won’t take 50 years, more like 20 to 25 or maybe even less. Although once no food or fuel go to the Blue strongholds that will be that.
The guri dam has lots of turbines......Francis Turbines. 10 × 730 MW
4 × 180 MW
3 × 400 MW
3 × 225 MW
1 × 340 MW
The power station had a combined installed capacity of 1750 megawatts (MW).[3] By 1978, the capacity had been upgraded to 2065 MW, generated by ten turbines.
Because the electricity demand grew so fast, 1976 saw the beginning of a second building stage: a 1300 m long gravity dam was built, another spillway channel and a second powerhouse containing 10 turbines of 630 MW each.
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Since there are numerous turbines in at least two power houses, we must deduce that the problem is not a single turbines. The wiki article notes that the entire operation is controlled by a computer system designed by Hitachi. The problem lies beyond the turbines and is likely the gris/generator controlling Hitachi system.
The Wiki article is current
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guri_Dam
It could be years before those plants are in operation again regardless of what happens.
Atlas Shrugged, indeed.
(Go look in Galt's Gulch)
They didn’t need our help to trash their infrastructure, it’s a feature of “socialism”, not a bug.
-— the capacity had been upgraded to 2065 MW
2.1 Gigawatts??? Great Scott!
(I know, not quite right, but hey)
You may want to check your meds. This article is about *Venezuela.* Argentina has its own problems, but the lights are still on there.
In Michigan in general. Major power outages happen 2-3 times a year. Generators are quite popular here.
CC
I heard the turbines were damaged when the outgoing power impulse fed back upon itself after the transmission lines failed.
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Removing the load from a generator can cause a voltage spike that exceeds the dialectric $trength of the insulation .The resulting arc then damages the insulation allowing more current which causes more damage .....
They just passed the Green New Deal!
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The solution to Venezuela’s problem is simple...
It will occur at the point in time when the population decides that their liberty is more valuable to them than their own lives. Right now, they are waiting for someone to come and fix it for them. That someone is the United States.
We (the USA) should stay out of it, and let the Venezuelans throw out the Cuban taskmasters who are controlling the Armed Forces. Else, let South America deal with it if they want a military solution.
If the us goes in to throw Maduro and cronies out, all it will do is create resentment in the Venezuelan peoples themselves S well as other South American people. Theyll look at us as imperialists and will resent their loss of face as well.
Mismanagement and idiocy can easily cause a single event to destroy multiple turbine generator sets. Doesn’t have to be the computer controls - and remember that most of the competent people have already fled.
Russia recently had a mechanical failure in a single turbine that took out the entire station’s power output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano%E2%80%93Shushenskaya_power_station_accident
re: “Other experts, including Mr. Aguilar, said the magnitude of the blackout indicated the problem was caused by a major failure inside Guris turbines”
Idiots.
IF it’s a ‘plant’ with generators, it’s NOT a SUBSTATION, it’s a GENERATING STATION!!
Idiots.
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