A news story I read about tomorrow's planned power blackouts in California said that it might be several days before power is restored in many areas, because affected power transmission lines will have to be inspected before they're re-energized again. There will be hell to pay if PG&E et al stick to that protocol.
Power outages and black-outs
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The latest as the apocalyptic wind predictions fail to materialize. Chaos, confusion, anger, and frustration rain in the golden state.
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PG&E says that the second phase of power outages is now delayed due to weather forecast changes.
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Generators To Keep Caldecott Tunnel Open During Power Outage
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PG&E says that the second phase of power outages is now delayed due to weather forecast changes.
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Theses so called events are all smoking mirrors IMHO! With posible intentional fire starts pushing the false narrative with fear.
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Hurricane-force winds slammed parts of New England and New York on Thursday, as the bomb cyclone, we first reported on Tuesday, knocks out power to hundreds of thousands of people, destroys critical infrastructure, and delays air travel in parts of the Northeast.
The strong overnight storm "is now parked over southern New England with the pressure equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane," meteorologist Dave Hennen told CNN.
More than half a million customers in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Maine, and Massachusetts are currently without power in the 11 am est. hour. The majority of the outages are in Massachusetts (224,000) and Maine (219,000), according to poweroutage.us.
Throughout Thursday, winds up to 50 mph are expected for New England, while Boston and New York could see winds up to 40 mph.
In Provincetown, Massachusetts, government weather stations recorded wind speeds over 90 mph, which is on the upper end of a Category 1 hurricane, borderline Category 2 wind speed. Boston Logan International Airport recorded 70 mph on Thursday, while winds hit 125 mph at Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
Torrential rains slammed upstate New York, and some areas saw at least 5 inches of rain in hours. For many parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states, 1 to 3 inches were common.
Data from Flight Aware between 8 am and 12 pm est. Thursday shows 243 delays and seven cancellations, with the bulk of the delays at LaGuardia and Boston Logan International Airports.
Social media users shared their experiences this morning of the bomb cyclone detonating in the Northeast:
The strong overnight storm "is now parked over southern New England with the pressure equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane," meteorologist Dave Hennen told CNN.
More than half a million customers in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Maine, and Massachusetts are currently without power in the 11 am est. hour. The majority of the outages are in Massachusetts (224,000) and Maine (219,000), according to poweroutage.us.
Throughout Thursday, winds up to 50 mph are expected for New England, while Boston and New York could see winds up to 40 mph.
In Provincetown, Massachusetts, government weather stations recorded wind speeds over 90 mph, which is on the upper end of a Category 1 hurricane, borderline Category 2 wind speed. Boston Logan International Airport recorded 70 mph on Thursday, while winds hit 125 mph at Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
Torrential rains slammed upstate New York, and some areas saw at least 5 inches of rain in hours. For many parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states, 1 to 3 inches were common.
Data from Flight Aware between 8 am and 12 pm est. Thursday shows 243 delays and seven cancellations, with the bulk of the delays at LaGuardia and Boston Logan International Airports.
Social media users shared their experiences this morning of the bomb cyclone detonating in the Northeast:
PG&E Say High Voltage Power Line Wasn't Shut Off Before Kincade Fire Sparked
PG&E officials said they've learned from this week's outage after admitting they only shut off low voltage lines and not high voltage transmission lines prior to the Kincade Fire because winds weren't strong enough. Maria Medina reports. (10-25-2019)
Will There Be A Power Outage Exodus?
As parts of our area brace for possible Public Safety Power Shutoffs because of the fire risk, those outages have an enormous impact on businesses big and small
Yep, that's the way they've doing it for a few years now. Especially in the boonies with lots of trees you have to make sure you don't power a line, cause a short and start a fire.
A lot of the terrain doesn't lend itself very well to easy firefighting: few roads, steep, lots of vegetation.
If there is a wind component, fires travel very fast. In the last couple of years some of the fires in the norther part of the state were so large and ferocious that they were creating their own weather.
Last time we were out for 21 hours, it seems this time it'll probably be at least 32 hours before power comes back on per the current plan for my area.
Man dies and 300,000 in power cut after snow in France
A man has died, more than 300,000 homes are without electricity, and roads and train lines remain obstructed after heavy snowfall in southeast France.
More than 300,000 homes remain without power after the snowfall caused trees to fall and bring down electricity lines in the area, electricity company Enedis said.
A major, 20,000 volt cable fell in Tournon-sur-Rhône (Ardèche); while another came down in the commune of Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban, over 25 houses; requiring the occupants to be evacuated by firefighters.
Enedis said: “Our teams have been deployed, but the situation is still developing.”
Train company SNCF has also confirmed that trains will be disrupted on several lines to and from Grenoble today, due to heavy snowfall, fallen trees, or trees that appear to be at risk of falling near or on to the tracks.
Airports in the area, including Lyon Saint-Exupéry, also experienced disruption including delays and cancellations.
Airport authority Aéroports de Lyon said it had delayed some flights due to the need to “de-snow” planes and runways, and that the snowfall had been “very heavy and sticky”, but said that the situation was becoming “resolved” by the evening. Passengers were advised to check their flights before travelling.
Orange weather warnings for more snow and ice had been in place the the area throughout the day yesterday, also including the Loire, Rhône, Saône-et-Loire - but all alerts across the country have now been lifted.
Mother nature is calling the shots now.
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Thanksgiving Travelgeddon: Power outage at Oakland airport foils some holiday travelers' plans
A power outage at Oakland International Airport is creating delays Tuesday night during one of the busiest travel days of the year.
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California blackouts pull plug on 2 million as heat wave bakes state
California's power systems-- overwhelmed during a heatwave-- experienced "an energy shortfall" Friday forcing officials to take measures that plunged at least 2 million people into darkness, authorities said.
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California's electrical providers, reporting "an energy shortfall" during a prolonged heat wave, imposed rolling blackouts Friday that have impacted at least 2 million people, authorities said.
CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS FEAR HEATWAVE, WINDS WILL INTENSIFY MASSIVE LA BLAZE
The California Independent System Operator, which manages the power grid, declared an emergency shortly after 6:30 p.m. and directed utilities around the state to slash their power loads by 1,000 megawatts. The resulting outages affected an estimated 750,000 homes.
Pacific Gas & Electric, the state's largest utility, tweeted that it would turn off power to about 220,000 customers in rotating outages for about an hour at a time. Other utilities were told to do the same.
“Unfortunately, because of the emergency nature of this, we weren’t able to notify customers in advance,” Jeff Smith, a company spokesman, said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg.
The outages occurred for 60 to 90 minutes on a rotating basis through the utility’s northern and central California service territory, he said.
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Power outage in Mexico.
This is a significant power outage. Like the total output of 2 average nuke plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations
This is a significant power outage. Like the total output of 2 average nuke plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations
Yesterday there was a bit more information on Twitter about the blackout in Mexico: apparently it isn't affecting everywhere but it is widespread (there's a map claiming to show regions below), one person is claiming it's the 2nd blackout in 3 days, and another person says it was '“Dia de los Inocentes” in Mexico which is like “April Fools”'':
Now yes, the @CFEmx and the @CenaceMexico They explained to us why more than 10 million users were without electricity yesterday? It was all due to a grassland fire.
Tamaulipas desmiente a CFE: no hubo incendio que supuestamente causó apagón
Pedro Granados Ramírez, titular de la Coordinación de Protección Civil del Gobierno de Tamaulipas, afirmó que es falso el oficio presentado por la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) en rueda de…
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"We were surprised to see that there is a statement, supposedly originating from the Tamaulipas Civil Protection, where it is said that there is an action in the attention of that fire that is said to be the cause of a mega blackout," said the state official in an interview with the newspaper El Financiero.
Likewise, Granados Ramírez clarified that at no time, neither elements of the State Coordination of PC, nor of the municipality of Padilla, participated in the supposed fire of 38 hectares of pasture.
In addition, the state official said he did not know who could have generated the document presented, "but what we are clear is that it was not us," stating that even the signature of Emmanuel González Márquez, coordinator of Municipalities of Civil Protection of Tamaulipas, does not correspond to the real one.
"There are many other characteristics of that statement such as schedules, units that supposedly participated, the actions that were supposedly carried out, the trade number, the logos, nothing to see, it is not our document, I do not know who could have done it," he explained. Granados Ramírez.
The Civil Protection Coordinator of said entity indicated that after hearing the news at the CFE press conference, he communicated with the Civil Protection Directorate in the municipality of Padilla, as with González Márquez, confirming that they had not participated in any the alleged facts.
Granados Ramírez also said that the strong winds that were registered by cold front number 23 could cause fires in various parts of the state, however, he pointed out that in the one indicated in the aforementioned press conference, they did not participate in their containment.
In a previous press conference, yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, December 29, the CFE reported that a fire in 30 hectares of grasslands in the municipality of Padilla, on the shore of federal highway 85 Victoria-Monterrey, caused the operation of two transmission lines in 400 kV.
These are located between Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, and Linares, Nuevo León (where the Lajas and Güémez substations are located), which supposedly caused the imbalance in the National Electric System (SEN), which left 10.3 million users without electricity. in the country.
“Upon detecting the fire, the local Civil Protection was notified. Due to the meteorological conditions that caused strong winds, the fire spread and as a result two lines went out of service ”, said Noé Peña Silva, director of CFE Transmission.
"[The fire] is the beginning of the event we had yesterday [Monday, December 28] and what caused it is something fortuitous based on this perfectly detected fire," emphasized Peña Silva, in a press conference virtual.
Upon detecting the fire, the local Civil Protection was notified, which supposedly recorded the event. Due to the meteorological conditions that caused strong winds, the fire spread and as a result two lines went out of service, added the director of CFE Transmission.
After the fire, various events were triggered that caused the power outage, according to Carlos Gonzalo Meléndez Román, director of the National Center for Energy Control (CENACE).
The federal official added that the participation of renewable energy generators is of an "excessive" level, due to what he called a "disarticulation of the national electricity system.
In this context, "the reliability of the national interconnected system was lost [...] CENACE will take the necessary actions to guarantee reliability," said Meléndez Román.
"It is a fortuitous event, it is a proven event, so that the initial responsibility is a fortuitous event," said Manuel Bartlett Díaz, CFE general director after explanations from the other federal officials.
Bartlett Díaz indicated that the parastatal company was not responsible for the failure that left 10.3 million users without electricity, but was part of the solution.
"It is not the only participant [...] far that the CFE has been responsible, CFE has been the support of this situation," said the general director of the parastatal.
Now, the @CFEmx and @CenaceMexico explained to us why more than 10 million users were without electricity yesterday? It was all due to a grassland fire. pic.twitter.com/qNnQYTGGoF -
Noise on the Net (@RuidoEnLaRed) December 30, 2020
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador affirmed yesterday, Tuesday, December 29, that the blackout that occurred yesterday in at least 12 states of the Republic will not be repeated, in addition to that the CFE would present a report on the causes that same day.
"It will not be repeated, it was an imbalance according to what the technicians expressed, some plants went out of operation and this generated a lack of control in the entire electrical system," added the national president during his morning press conference.
"They are going to present a report today on the causes that caused this blackout in 12 states, what it was due to and answer the question if it will continue to happen, I can anticipate that no, we have a good electricity service," commented the owner of the Federal Executive Power.
At the close of the press conference, the CEO, @ManuelBartlett He specified that the CFE was the solution to the imbalance in the National Electric System.
What a coincidence! Also in Chavista Venezuela they gave a similar version of their blackouts.
