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Originally Posted by US Angel
Power company over here are like that also
here they can be working on the Net 2 miles away
but for the fun of it decide to cut it off for a 10 mile area
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That all depends what the fault is and what they need to isolate to fix it. They already do a lot of live working to keep our supplies on. How would you like to work in a wet hole in the ground live jointing a cable to a streetlight so people don't miss Jeremy Kyle on TV. Or those crazy dudes that get dropped off a helicopter onto 400,000 volt power lines without turning it off.
We have that small a capacity reserve these days they can't turn some bits off to work.
Remember when the US East coast when off supply the other year, that was caused by one Canadian power station going offline. Just loosing one was enough to overload one in the US and it went offline and that cascaded all down the East coast.
We are running that risk in the UK now with only a tiny safety margin compared to only a few years ago.