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A comment on System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021. Parent comment

Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A... by gpvos on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:20PM (#25922678)
I understand that some equipment, such as consumer grade solar panels, already disconnects at 49.8, and one early analysis I read[0] said that that in fact exacerbated the problem somewhat on 8 January.

[0] https://www.hoogspanningsnet.com/ , entry of 08 januari 2021 - similar sentiments were expressed in articles linked from there

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Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A... by zaarn on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:22AM (#25924623)
Power producers != Consumers for small devices like consumer grade solar panels, especially if the inverter is too cheap to handle a frequency excursion.
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