Major power failure

[gruffalo]

Just a fault or a hack, it will be interesting to see.

Much of London and the south east without electricity.

[buckline]

£10 on outside interference.

[anonymous-user]

buckline said:

£10 on outside interference.

Aliens or Russians or the Iranians or the weather?

[tr7v8]

Just had our power off in the Chatham for 10-15 minutes. Had me wondering why I couldn't get any WiFi! Now back on

[citizensm1th]

All part of the no deal brexit preparations nothing to see here

[poo at Paul's]

I am at a client I Oxfordshire and we packed up as it was all off at just gone 5......just as I signed out, it came back on, so bang goes the early go!

[eharding]

Has the looting started yet?

[red_slr]

Boris forgot to put 20p in the meter

[SouthHamsGaz]

A lot of the South West went out around 5ish for about 30 minutes. Back on now thankfully.

[PositronicRay]

It was better in the 70s, we had a rota.

[untakenname]

Thought I'd caused a local outage using the toaster around an hour ago, had a 10-15 minute outage in S/E London.

[AJL308]

gruffalo said:

Just a fault or a hack, it will be interesting to see.

Much of London and the south east without electricity.

Preparing us for a Corbyn government.

[Zirconia]

Lightning strike? Bit of bad weather in that area.

https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar


Just heard on the radio what area's affected. Flippin eck, quite a lot.

[PositronicRay]

Oh well, poets day too!

[Countdown]

Didn’t something similar happen in Brazil recently?

[eharding]

Countdown said:

Didn’t something similar happen in Brazil recently?

Argentina.

[untakenname]

Colleague said it was due to too much wind but looking at the real-time grid status it seems ok?

https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Has crippled the rail network out of London

[AJL308]

BBC reporting that it's affected parts of the North East too.

[StanleyT]

I'd just posted this on teh News, Power thread....wind did have a drop, but was that cause / consequence.

What happened with the grid a couple of hours ago. We just got tripped on low frequency (sub 49Hz).

Looks like a pumped Hydro station tried a black start (Dinowig) on the Templar Gridwatch data? Can't see what fell off to cause it though.

Edit: Just seen the news on the power failure, 1GW drop off in Wind at the time also as pumped ramped up (though well done wind at 9GW). Was that the trip or has wind been turned down also? Not that dodgy N-S connector bringing McWindyVolts down to the south so we've had to turn on LllongogoaraftVollllllllts instead?

Who's burning coal at this time of year, looks like a single 660W set running alone, along steadily.

[Badgerboy]

A 'surge' apparantly, soca fault in distribution perhaps?

Can't say I know a huge amount about the technicalities of power distribution.