[time-nuts] Frequency deviations in Europe affect clocks

Bill Hawkins bill.iaxs at pobox.com
Fri Mar 9 02:26:23 EST 2018


Well, if you don't pay your bills, the power company can't afford the
fuel required to keep up with demand.
Stability of the system frequency requires a balance between supply and
demand. If the demand exceeds supply then the generators must slow down.
In a synchronous network, all generators must slow down to reduce strain
on the network. If strain is exceeded, circuit breakers pop until the
demand equals supply. So if a part of the network has to slow down from
lack of fuel, then the entire network has to slow down to prevent
popping circuit breakers until demand power equals supply.

Hope that helps,
Bill Hawkins


-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of David
G. McGaw
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2018 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Frequency deviations in Europe affect clocks

Can someone please explain why not paying your bills causes the grid and
therefore the clocks to slow down?  None of the reports, either for the
technical or lay person, give a reason.

David N1HAC





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