>>24098181 [PB]
>Black Start is the protocol for bringing the Electric Grid back on line after a total nationwide grid failure. This has never been done! We don't know if it can be done.
Regional black start HAS been done, and the protocol has worked. [In 1982] I worked through the blackstart restoration of most of the Western USA after a 500kV line was ripped down by high winds after days of heavy rain had loosened the footings. That line was in the middle of a corridor of several high-power transmession lines bringing power to California from the Pav=cific Northwest's abundant hydropower generation facilities.
The line fell into other lines, which also fell and all lines in the corridor were instantly taken out of service by automatic relaying designed to prevent equipment failure. The loss of all this power caused a cascade effect which put all of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of other states into total blackout.
I worked with dispatchers from the Dept of Energy's Western Area Power Admin to patch the grid back together, drawing on hydropower plants as the black start power source (water doesn't need power to begin generating, unlike gas, coal, or nuclear).
Anyway, I agree that cybersecurity is a disgrace within the nation's electrical power grid and it's a matter of national security to improve that. I just want anons to know that black start HAS been tested, and it works.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/23/us/millions-lose-electric-power-as-storm-blasts-west-coast.html
https://apelectric.com/blog/worst-power-outages-in-history/