Re: Inrush currents en mass?
All this makes me think what would happen if the National Grid ever crashed - or even separated in two. It's never happened yet although I understand the procedures exist, but obviously can't be tried!
I guess restarting would be getting one power station up and running, at the right frequency, bringing another station up, syncing it in frequency phase and voltage and switching in, then another (bearing in mind that some power stations suck a fair bit of power till they're established), connecting some users, then bit by bit adding more generation and more load.
Syncing two separate sections of Grid, if it ever split, sounds nigh-on impossible. One would have to be progressively shrunk as its generators and users were isolated and reswitched into the other.
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