Jones Beene wrote:
We could be making a mountain out of a molehill, as this small point
probably does not explain anything which is relevant to MAHG, anyway,
but...
This the maximum variation for ENGAGING a generator to the network.
Once engaged there will be a forced synchronization. Outside this
range the generator will not be allowed to engage.
Yes. Every generator must be in sync... but the French like to do
everything in their own uniques and slightly "citroenesque" fashion,
so to speak, and that could mean (just a guess) that the previous day
some bureaucrat in Paris, seeing the weather forecast, has decreed
that at 10:00 am we will all go to the maximum rpms on all turbines.
...and to heck with anyone so foolish as to own an electric clock
which depends on a stable frequency... matter of fact I have noticed
that the French do not trust electric clocks particularly anyway....
They also don't trust the tap water, or so I'm told.
But is there no cross-border grid in Europe? I thought there was. And
that would really take it on the chin if all of France suddenly decided
to up-tempo.
And in any case I still don't understand how the frequency of the grid
as a whole is kept locked to a particular value if all the generators
are happily phase-locking to whatever everybody else is doing. But
that's a problem with the U.S. system, too, and since it obviously
exists :-) I conclude that the lack is in my understanding.
