Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Sat Jun 25 15:06:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I read the piece incorrectly, but it certainly sounded to *me* like
> the part that was hard was not hitting 60.00, but *staying in sync with
> others*...

Way I read it, when they occasionally run at 59.9hz for a few hours
(and according to my UPS monitoring software this is a regular
occurance), they're no longer going to run at 60.1 hz for a while so
that the average comes out to 60.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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