[time-nuts] Blackout in Europe and power line frequency jump

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <000801c701f5$15e0ae50$0900a8c0 at cyrus>, "Bill Hawkins" writes:

>Many thanks for the report. Curious about what would cause
>that kind of massive overload. Seems like several generating
>plants just dropped off the grid.

A big cruise-boat needed to pass under a 400 kV line on the river
Ems and to avoid trouble the turned it off during the passage.

That resulted in overloads elsewhere and all the cards came crashing
down.

In the western half of Denmark the frequency got up to 50.4 Hz before
producers started to fall off the net.

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