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Electrical outages. cyber attacks ?

aligarjon
What's the chances of the power outages and airport problems being cyber attacks.     Is that possible.   I would think so  ?


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    Kelly,
    That’s right, my source is a book I believe is titled “The History of the National Grid”, but I too no longer have it, just notes that I made some years ago.  There may well be a copy in the IET Library.
    The book also has an interesting story about the early overall operation of the Grid.  Originally it was configured in seven grid control areas each with its own control centre, with interconnectors for sharing power should it be needed.  It was thought that to operate the grid as one entity would be too dangerous because of the risk of hunting, with large uncontrolled swings.

    The London control room could monitor the other areas, so with typical engineers curiosity on the night of 29 October 1937 engineers on the night shift quite unofficially decided they would try it.  One by one the engineer in London issued switching instructions until all seven areas were connected and all power stations throughout the country were connected as an integrated system.  It stayed like that all night when everything was carefully returned to normal just before the day shift came on duty.


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    Kelly,
    That’s right, my source is a book I believe is titled “The History of the National Grid”, but I too no longer have it, just notes that I made some years ago.  There may well be a copy in the IET Library.
    The book also has an interesting story about the early overall operation of the Grid.  Originally it was configured in seven grid control areas each with its own control centre, with interconnectors for sharing power should it be needed.  It was thought that to operate the grid as one entity would be too dangerous because of the risk of hunting, with large uncontrolled swings.

    The London control room could monitor the other areas, so with typical engineers curiosity on the night of 29 October 1937 engineers on the night shift quite unofficially decided they would try it.  One by one the engineer in London issued switching instructions until all seven areas were connected and all power stations throughout the country were connected as an integrated system.  It stayed like that all night when everything was carefully returned to normal just before the day shift came on duty.


    David

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