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February 16, 2014
Trees which then fall on local neighborhood power lines, or a more serious circumstance, sometimes we get freezing rain that can accumulate on transmission lines. when that happens, a lot more people can be affected by the outage. >> and how does it actually affect the grid itself? how does it become bigger than just that branch that may be iced up falling on a power line? >> if they get a transmission line thats taken out, it can actually bring generation plants off line. ill give you an exampl...
February 16, 2014
Trees which then fall on local neighborhood power lines, or a more serious circumstance, sometimes we get freezing rain that can accumulate on transmission lines. when that happens, a lot more people can be affected by the outage. >> and how does it actually affect the grid itself? how does it become bigger than just that branch that may be iced up falling on a power line? >> if they get a transmission line thats taken out, it can actually bring generation plants off line. ill give you an exampl...