Reply to post: Wait, what?

Green software blacked out Australian State

Cuddles

Wait, what?

"The Research Center's people note that “the protection feature resulting in sustained power reduction of wind turbines is not generally implemented in simulation models provided to clients. Even if this feature was present, it is not customary to study multiple faults as occurred in the actual event.”

So the issue was that the people who build the turbines don't bother to tell the people using them how they actually work, and that even if they had, no-one had ever bothered to wonder what might happen if more than one thing goes wrong at a time, such as happens pretty much every time there's a storm. That's not the global industry learning something valuable from a major incident, it's a bunch of incompetent fuckwits learning the absolute basics of simulating a system.

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