Baseload Balance INCIDENT CARDS
INCIDENT
At 3:00 p.m. heavy cloud cover moves over the region taking out your solar generation. If you can’t provide enough power to meet the load, RTO must choose who will lose power and be in blackout. How could a blackout have been avoided?
INCIDENT
At 2:00 p.m. a baseload coal unit trips and you lose 10 MWs of baseload coal. If you can’t provide enough power to meet the load, RTO must choose who will lose power and be in blackout. How could a blackout have been avoided?
INCIDENT
At 5:00 p.m. a derecho hits, damaging power lines. You lose half your commercial and residential load. You must balance your load with generation. Could this have been predicted?
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