Last Tuesday, operators of SMUD (Sacramento) were practicing their rapid load shedding procedures when one operator inadvertently activated the code. SMUD says they will not punish him for cutting off power to over 70k before they could deactivate the load shedding code.News is now saying it maybe related to an overload of some sorts, so I'm curious - how fast they can shed a heavy load? I know they have to have something in place to do so, but just wondering how fast it can do so.
News is now saying it maybe related to an overload of some sorts, so I'm curious - how fast they can shed a heavy load? I know they have to have something in place to do so, but just wondering how fast it can do so. Quickly. But they would like it to be orderly with minimum loss so it is controlled by a software program.
At some nuclear plants I worked, we could dump 100% of the load in milliseconds if there was a problem on the grid or with the electrical generator.