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Default Continental europe having problems with 50Hz

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:06:24 +0000, Andy Bennet wrote:

On 06/03/2018 13:52, newshound wrote:
On 06/03/2018 13:46, Andy Burns wrote:
They've lost 5 minutes worth of cycles since mid-January

https://www.entsoe.eu/news-events/announcements/announcements-archive/Pages/News/Frequency-deviations-in-Continental-Europe-including-impact-on-electric-clocks-steered-by-frequency.aspx

Seems surprising.

I'm not sure if the continental grid is kept synchronised across all
countries. In the UK, any daily lag is usually fixed overnight.


Good job the interconnctors are DC!


I didn't know / imagine that (or guess why)?

Cheers, T i m