[Iscool]

Well explain to us Gigawatt Guru; how is it that when the guy (or lady) at the power station sees the amp meter rising and it's time to pick up some extra power off the grid, or, kick in the stand-by turbine(s) (there are always stand-bys) that he failed to flip the switch...

The failed plant should have isolated itself...The fact that one third of the United States can lose all it's electricity by losing one plant is ridiculous...There's more to this than meets the eye...I'm not suggesting terrorism but something is seriously wrong...

[Grassontop]

Blame Hildebeast Clinton for the power outage! She blew her nose to hard!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*****Well explain to us Gigawatt Guru; how is it that when the guy (or lady) at the power station
sees the amp meter rising and it's time to pick up some extra power off the grid, or, kick in
the stand-by turbine(s) (there are always stand-bys) that he failed to flip the switch... ****

Your head is up your A$$. We produce the power, the DISPATCHER sends it to where it needs to go (unless we are on load control then the dispatcher raises and lowers the load on the plant remotly). If he needs more power he calls us to increase or decrease load. We have no standby generators here.
If there is a fault on the line protective circuitry will open connections to try to isolate the fault. often this fails.

As for one third of the us loosing power at one time, look at what happened a few years ago in the western section of the US. A power plant in Las Vegas tripped off. This caused a series cascading trips that caused most of the western part of the US to loose power.
And NO, we can not send power to other areas out of our power pool as the SYNCRONIZATION may be different( unless you have a HVDC rectifier system for interconnections.)