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Permalink Reply by Dan on August 26, 2016 at 7:39am

Good Question.  I would guess they just flip a switch on the grid until the pipeline is fixed unless it was a plant just feeding a small regional grid.  Most of the country is all inter-connected.

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Permalink Reply by william george allison on August 26, 2016 at 8:39am

yup I was just wondering about that we all know pipelines fail and it took weeks to fix the one by my house in the middle of winter and it would be expensive to have two separate pipelines to feed the power plant

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Permalink Reply by 0ym9x5ag7ury2 on August 27, 2016 at 2:58am

George,

       I answered your question on the extra copy of your post that must have been deleted, so I'll add a brief answer on this copy.

Gas Turbines are no different than Coal or Nuclear, when they lose their power source or have a failure, the turbine slows down and the out put breaker opens separating it from the grid.

The folks that monitor the grid check to ensure the reserve power flows to your area or breakers close to pick up your areas load.

Your lights might flicker, but if there is a tree on a power line that is placed in service, the new supply path could be lost, similar to 2003s outage. But that is rare, and was expensive for one Producer.

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