 SnickerdoPremium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON | Niagara Peninsula Decoupled before Power Failed Real interesting situation. Turns out one of the workers at the Sir Adam Beck Generating Station in Niagara Falls, ON saw the cascade failure as it was coming up from the USA and managed to decouple a small portion of the grid and keep power flowing. All of Niagara Falls, about a quarter of St. Catharines, half of Welland and most of Fort Erie and Niagara-on-the-Lake only had their lights dim for a few seconds as the area was removed from the grid. Whoever managed to see this coming and decouple our area from the power grid should be given a reward.
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| I heard on NECN (New england cable news) that this happened with the New England power grid as well, techs saw the problem and immediately isolated the New England grid from New York's. Not sure if that is true or not, in fact our power here in Maine was not affected in any way, be it dimming lights or outages, through the whole ordeal. |
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 batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ | reply to Snickerdo
Re: Niagara Peninsula Decoupled before Power Faile Half of New Jersey never lost power. It just depends on how the power gets to ones plug. I do not believe Homer Simpson could act that fast. |
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| said by batterup:
Half of New Jersey never lost power. It just depends on how the power gets to ones plug. I do not believe Homer Simpson could act that fast.
Haha I bet he would be the cause if anything. rofl 
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to Snickerdo
Canuck in L.A. Good ol Sir Adam Beck - kept St. Kitts and Welland running when all else fails - usually the grid doesn't help out the Niagara Region |
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| I live in St. Catharines Near Brock University and Beaver Dam power Gen has kept my area w/ power 24/7 the whole time juring this blackout.. I heard they arent on the main grid, so everything could be down on the main grid, and so long as Port and beaver Dam Gens are up most of those areas will have power..
Sad thing is:
1st S.A.R.S hit all the "super Hospitals" and they didin't learn that bigger isn't better (infact its a huge detrement.) Now they have to go through a similar thing w/ the power grid.. Sad thing is they won't change anything because this only happens every few decades and its cheaper to let it happen then to fix it and redesing the system..
Ohh well..
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SnickerdoPremium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON | reply to Snickerdo
Re: Niagara Peninsula Decoupled before Power Failed A portion of St. Catharines is on the same local grid as Niagara Falls, so when the worker decoupled that section from the main North American grid it took a portion of St. Catharines and Welland along with it. The people who were on the other local grid in St. Catharines went down along with everything else.
St. Catharines is a unique local utility because they generate their own power at Port Dalhousie and don't share it with OPG.
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en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to lazarus_
Canuck in L.A. As usual with degregulation, and big $$$
Nothing is proactive, everything is reactive, and after the fact. I wish for the days of good old Ontario Hydro. |
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