Commercial AC power outage - restore Voltage ?

[Chip Fetrow]

Ravenswood No. 3 was in use when the grid went down, but the power failure killed it.

It seems the turbine oil pumps were connected to the grid, and when the grid went down, the lubrication of the turbine bearings was lost, and that was all she wrote.

It was built in 1965 -- I think it took two years to get there, so it couldn't have been on-line long before the grid failure.

--chip

On Aug 23, 2013, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:37:40 -0400
> From: Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com>
> To: Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org>
> Subject: Re: Commercial AC power outage - restore Voltage ?
> 
> Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> writes:
> 
>> the first big NYC blackout too much much longer to recover
>> precisely because of the lack of sectionalizing relays
>> which caused the recovery areas to be far larger than 
>> could be handled easily without whacking the crap out of
>> the transmission grid.
> 
> The 1965 one?  Big Allis couldn't take full nameplate load in
> one step?  I'd be asking for my money back... or wasn't it online yet?  :)
> 
> -r