Well, if you don't pay your bills, the power company can't afford the fuel required to keep up with demand. Stability of the system frequency requires a balance between supply and demand. If the demand exceeds supply then the generators must slow down. In a synchronous network, all generators must slow down to reduce strain on the network. If strain is exceeded, circuit breakers pop until the demand equals supply. So if a part of the network has to slow down from lack of fuel, then the entire network has to slow down to prevent popping circuit breakers until demand power equals supply.
Hope that helps, Bill Hawkins -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David G. McGaw Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2018 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Frequency deviations in Europe affect clocks Can someone please explain why not paying your bills causes the grid and therefore the clocks to slow down? None of the reports, either for the technical or lay person, give a reason. David N1HAC _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
