Okay....
Been there, done that. Oil rigs have their own light plants, generators which provide power for the drill site.
In the past, when those were not necessarily kept up to snuff, we had variations in the frequency of power provided. Which means electric motors wore out far quicker, (from the large motors that ran pumps, right down to the little motors which ran chart drives on gas monitoring equipment. On occasion, the power was so bad, electronic devices would not function.
Now they want to do this to the grid?
Which means your home goodies won’t function as advertised, aqnd their lifespan will be shortened, from your furnace blower and air conditioner, refrigerator, washer, dryer, right down to the little pump that blows bubbles in your fish tank.
Sounds like a job creation scam. We’ll have to consume more and pump more money into our failing economy.
I hear that. I the plant I work in, you would not believe the carnage that is caused by something is simple as a brownout, even if it lasts a split second. I have spent hours recovering machine operations over that.
You nailed it Joe!
Laminations in electric motors and transformers are sized and designed for 60 cycle.
This will probably be a big boost to the power correction industry. Gonna cost a lot of money to “clean up” the power coming into your plant, office, etc.
What do you make of the above article, do you think they are related?