[cinFLA]

One of my brothers mentioned back during the 90s, there was a very large blackout in West Texas, centering around a technician cleaning something and managing to knock out power to hundreds of thousands.

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.

[af_vet_rr]

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.