Join Allen from the Battery Blarney duo on this episode of DC Power Hour as he welcomes back industry expert Al Warner and introduces Ryan Wallace, a new team member at Eagle Eye and first-time guest. Together, they dive into the timely topic of power outages, breaking down the causes and sharing their valuable industry insights.
Episode Highlights
03:57 – It’s critical that people who have our level of experience speak out when we see a need for the younger generation to understand what we’ve went through. We’ve learned a lot of lessons. In the power industry and being able to communicate those. And today’s topic is probably near and dear to my heart
10:32 – The number one lesson that I took away from the National Power Lapse study was that before the actual outage, where the power just goes to zero, there’s usually a voltage sag and power supplies traditionally are designed to withstand a certain amount of voltage sag and outage.
16:06 – A brownout is where the utility lowers the voltage so they can provide for a few more customers and then there’s of course the famous blackout and rolling blackouts.
19:51 – The reality of today’s grid, which needs a massive upgrade, as we’ve said before, is it needs to be redesigned because the whole backbone of the US grid is the problem.
31:46 – We had a crew come to our, our property and they were trimming the limbs. I said take these down because they’re going to be a problem and the guy said, no they don’t pay me to do that. The next year we had limbs from those trees hanging on our power line and we had an outage.
