[time-nuts] Re: Power grid logging during the eclipse?

[Jeremy Nichols]

Does anyone know the size of the Moon’s shadow on the Earth? From satellite
views, I get the feeling it could be the size of one or more US a states.
That would knock out a lot of solar production and cause a lot of
nightlights to illuminate.

Jeremy


On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 7:14 AM Chris Caudle via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

> On Monday, April 8, 2024 9:23:47 PM CDT Scott Newell via time-nuts wrote:
> > Was anyone logging the eastern US power grid today during the
> > eclipse? I've got some pretty simple hardware at home and about 50
> > miles away at work. Both are showing a bit of weirdness today around
> > 19:00 UTC.
>
> I have no idea how much power disruption would be needed to cause that
> amount
> of change in the power distribution, but I see that there is a few MW of
> solar
> generation in that general quadrant of the state.  I don't know if the
> shadow
> traversing the solar generation plants could explain the behavior, but
> would
> probably be the first easy answer I would look for.
>
> --
> Chris Caudle
>
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