My view is that failures of this nature are acceptable provided that they remain very rare. It is not worth spending vast amounts of money to mitigate something that happens a dozen times a century.
If however this sort of failure becomes more common, then something needs to be done. This "something" could consist of large flywheels, batteries, or the prompt cutting off of customers who have agreed to this in return for a preferential tariff.
Agreed. If failures such as this remain rare then it would make far more sense to spend money on the means to cut off lower priority customers first and ensure that essential services such as the transport networks and hospitals etc remain only a last resort.
My view is that failures of this nature are acceptable provided that they remain very rare. It is not worth spending vast amounts of money to mitigate something that happens a dozen times a century.
If however this sort of failure becomes more common, then something needs to be done. This "something" could consist of large flywheels, batteries, or the prompt cutting off of customers who have agreed to this in return for a preferential tariff.
Agreed. If failures such as this remain rare then it would make far more sense to spend money on the means to cut off lower priority customers first and ensure that essential services such as the transport networks and hospitals etc remain only a last resort.
