In the USA, most,if not all of our control systems have been digital for a very long time.
Only we old, retired geezers would know how to bring on generators by manually synchronizing phases.
Anybody can start one generator in a system.
The rest have to be synchronized with the phase of the first.
If you are connecting to a grid that already has power from elsewhere, you have to synchronize to that.
With the operators gone, either by fleeing the country or replaced by political buddies of the socialists, nobody is going to know how to do this.
As they try to bring generators on line, they are potentially going to burn up transformers, burn up generator windings, shear the shafts between the generators and the turbines, melt power lines and burn up appliances at the end user.
Depending on the damage untrained operators have already caused, it might take the Chinese years to put Humpty Dumpty back together, with the technologically illiterate socialist regime losing patience and blaming them.
This is one we should sit out and let nature take its' course.
Along with the ignorant humans problem, this is a humid, wet, fast growing jungle area.
Corrosion at every electrical connector and switch in the control equipment is a problem.
Trees and vines shorting out transmission lines is a big problem.
Good luck to whoever steps into this mess.
What we are witnessing here is a mini version of what an EMP attack or other, simpler attacks would do to the USA.
This is one we should sit out and let nature take its’ course.
I could not agree more, but probably we won’t.