Florida says blackout over, power being restored
Linda Campbell of the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council said preliminary reports showed that a problem at a substation in Dade County led to the loss of a transmission line and the shutdown of power plants owned by Florida Power & Light, a unit of FPL Group.
Anyone know if that makes sense?
It might make sense- it might not. It really depends on whether or not they actually SHUT DOWN the two nuke plants at Turkey Point. The way I understand it- IF the nukes shut down, it affects the Florida grids, which in turn denies them power. It takes time for them to acquire power from other sources to get back up and running. HOWEVER- if Turkey Point was really shut down- all the power being restored is coming from separate facilities- they’re on their own instead of drawing from the main source at TP.
The question is did they really shut down TP? If that is the case, it will take many hours if not a few days to bring it back online.
Make sense?
Yep. Makes plenty of sense. if a substation goes down the power has no place to go and the operators trip off the supply. Typically to avoid more serious problems the trips tend to be many times higher than required. The supply and load need to be balanced. Not easy.