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swamp_donkeyyesterday at 5:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

Ah! Perhaps you are a member of the gigawatt club? Eligible for entry once you have accidentally tripped off 1000 MW of load or generation! No sweeping that under the table


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bigiainyesterday at 10:01 PM

Somehow I simultaneously desperately want to be in that club, and never want to be responsible for an event that would let me join that club...

jacquesmyesterday at 10:48 AM

I'm the idiot that sent a fairly high voltage spike into the grid setting off a cascade. Even years later I do not fully understand how it could happen, you'd think the grid would be low impedance enough to absorb a spike like that. But it set off a cascade on a part of the local grid that was known to be weak.