I can only imagine the difficulties facing technicians and engineers black starting a nation-scale grid. I operate a microgrid facility in Hispaniola and have

I can only imagine the difficulties facing technicians and engineers black starting a nation-scale grid. I operate a microgrid facility in Hispaniola and have wonderfully cooperative users backed by a separately powered communications and control system. Even for us, a facility serving a small neighborhood and farm, a black start must be performed as a careful choreography of systems and loads…and we can just pick up a radio and tell people to turn the main breaker of their house on or off, and to leave their AC units off until we finish bringing everything up. In 12 years we’ve only had to do it twice, but even for us it’s a tedious process.