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No it didn't. A lack of redundancy caused an islandwide outage.
by DecentShoes 2y ago
No it didn't.
A lack of redundancy caused an islandwide outage.
- Jailbird 2y agoI heard similar but haven't found a "no, it wasn't a monkey" article yet.
- athenot 2y agoThe point is that the monkey was only the trigger. But the full cause of an outage is much more than just the trigger. It's a monkey this time, could have been an operator or a storm... Digging a bit deeper, they appear to be running with very little margin, if any. Meaning redundancy and protection against cascading failures is limited. Fixing the real cause is expensive, so it's often easier to just blame the trigger—though admittedly in this case it makes for a great headline. :)
- nullc 2y agoor a kite. It's not like the monkey deployed special monkey skills beyond "occupy space while being electrically conductive".
- Jailbird 2y agoOK, in all fairness I did think all we were talking about was the trigger, not the underlying vulnerable system (which I already had understood to be less than solid over the years.)
- billfruit 2y agoIn other words the monkey was only the straw that broke the camels back.
- orbital-decay 2y agoAccording to the report the faulty busbar caused a frequency drop, I doubt this could have been prevented by having more redundancy, the failure mode was more complex than that.
- vineyardmike 2y agoTechnically, the monkey caused the island wide grid to fallback to the (reduced) redundancy mode of their power station... > Sunday's disruption also affected the island's only 900 MW coal fired power plant, causing it to operate in safe mode, the CEB said. "All efforts are being made to restore the grid to full capacity but power cuts will be implemented to manage peak demand hours in the night," the CEB statement added.