Commercial AC power outage - restore Voltage ?

[Rob Seastrom]

3t3 <3t3 at comcast.net> writes:

> When the electrical power companies restore electrical power to a
> neighborhood after a widespread power outage, what initial "start up"
> voltage do they send out on the line to accommodate the
> instantaneously huge start up current surge needed to get "back on the
> air" in a "stable" condition ?

I'm given to understand they bring it back a neighborhood at a time,
not a couty at a time, which keeps the inrush current to something the
grid can handle rather than making the generators and turbines leap
off their mounts and exclaim "I think not!".

-r