Florida blackout
Florida blackout
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Of course the first story I heard on the radio this afternoon was that there had been a major failure at a nuclear power plant resulting in the emergency shutdown of two reactors.
Now on CNN's web site: "... a disconnect switch failed at 1:08 p.m. at the automated substation west of Miami, and a piece of equipment that controls voltage caught fire about the same time. Neither failure by itself would have caused a widespread outage, he said."
Anyone know any more that that?
Now on CNN's web site: "... a disconnect switch failed at 1:08 p.m. at the automated substation west of Miami, and a piece of equipment that controls voltage caught fire about the same time. Neither failure by itself would have caused a widespread outage, he said."
Anyone know any more that that?






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It took only three minutes for an overheated switch and then a fire at a power substation near Miami on Tuesday afternoon to shut down a nuclear plant south of the city and trigger Florida's largest blackout in at least 20 years. Figuring out why is going to take longer.
Florida Power & Light Co. executives said they can't explain how malfunctions at a substation triggered a domino effect that left at least 2.5 million Floridians without power and affected 20 electrical substations as far away as Daytona Beach and Tampa. Internal controls should have kept the outages from spreading so quickly and that far, company officials said.
Sun-Sentinel
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Any thoughts???
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rmw
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Somebody better have their story figured out really, really well.....
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rmw
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the articles says the filed engineer was suspended and mentions employees, sounds like it was a FPL guy.
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I dunno. I've seen some who will make the same mistakes or interesting variants thereof, time and time again...
old field guy
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It seems like breaker failure or back up (Z3/Z4) distance would have prevented the widespread outage.
Michael
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....then FIDVR came up as a concern for the extended collapse that led to the blackout.
Just thought I'd pass that along,
Michael
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Dade County P&C guys had their laptops confiscated by the government the next day.
FPL still doing full sequence of events analysis on this one. I've been talking to all of my ex FPL P&C colleagues about this since then.
Protection and Control Field Engineers are feeling the heat after this event!