GridEx 2013 preparedness drill

Have the zetas addressed the grid going down drill? Hope it doesn’t get crippled in the process! [and from another] http://offgridsurvival.com/governmentpreparednessdrill-powergridshutdown/  On November 13 – 14, 2013, the United States; Canada; and Mexico, along with more than 150 companies and organizations in all three countries, will take part in the GridEx 2013 Preparedness Drill [and from another] http://www.spp.org/publications/13%20-%20CIPC%20Brief%20%28Harrell%20Conway%20Mar%202013%29%20V2.pdf  Validate the current readiness of the electricity industry to respond to a security incident, incorporating lessons learned from GridEx 2011. 

It should not be surprising that grid-down exercises are being conducted. What is surprising is that the world does not do more of them, and that they seem to be popular only lately. As the 7 of 10 plate movement predictions began unfolding as predicted, the ZetaTalk predictions on the coming earthquakes totally disabling the grid were taken more seriously. Why should such tests be considered necessary? Electric grids are designed to shut down whether either a surge or a brownout occur, as both can damage equipment. Then, either automatically or usually by manual intervention, they are restarted. Meanwhile, there is an outage. Facilities, such as hospitals, that need continuous service have backup generators. 

How would this change if a broad area were shut down? The issue is primarily the sequence of steps needed to restart the grid. In a local outage, there is just one gateway that has been closed, with the area served having numerous switch points that also need to be reset. One starts at the gateway branching off the source of electrical flow, so that as each switch point affected finds it is neither in a brownout or surge situation, it allows the flow to go through. Current is also tested during this restart process to avoid an inadvertent brownout situation. Any switch or fuse damaged by the outage is identified and replaced. 

Magnify this 1,000%. Every grid is down, and not just in a local area. It is almost unheard of that a power source is offline utterly, as there is no single source. There are multiple coal burning plants, or multiple nuclear power generators, in a row. One fails, the others increase production or demand is reduced somehow. It is a matter of scale, with the worst case outages considered a 10% of production concern, where these grid-down exercises are planning up to a temporary 100% production outage. Lessons will be learned on how to restart from this position. Is the establishment anticipating a 100% failure? In the case of nuclear plants, heavy earthquakes would indeed require a shutdown of the plants. 

Source: ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for September 14, 2013