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did not cope with running at reduced frequency, additional power was lost and resulted in a blackout of the Western part. The Eastern part suffered from hydropower oversupply (41%) that wasn't able to flow westward. The Eastern part was accelerated by ca. 1.6
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with a surplus of power, which is then exported to the population centers in Western Turkey. At the time of the blackout, sufficiently many transmission lines and
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The Turkish electric authority regularly performs maintenance in the spring in preparation for high electricity demand during the summer. The
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also tripped. This was the reason that the disturbances only had effects in Turkey and did not cascade to neighbouring countries.
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split in half at CET 09:36:11 and separated from the Central European (CE) synchronous zone, i.e. connecting lines to
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At 16:12 (CET) - ca. 6.5 hours after the blackout - the Western and Eastern part were resynchronised, while the
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The two parts inside Turkey behaved differently. The Western part suffered from a lack generation (21%) and
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was already about 80% energized. At 18:30 almost 95% of the loads were served again.
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An analysis of large-scale transmission power blackouts from 2005 to 2016
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Major losses in everyday life, mainly in electricity-dependent jobs
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had been removed from service that the system was no longer in an
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line tripped, the remaining East-West connections failed. The
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Power outage
Power line
overload
power outage
Turkey
spring rains
hydropower plants in Eastern Turkey
capacitor banks
(n-1)-secure state
Kurşunlu
electric system in Turkey
Greece
Bulgaria
frequency
Load shedding
power plants in Turkey
Hz
Turkish grid
"Turkey's power outage linked to mismanagement, grid director resigns"
the original


Report on Blackout in Turkey on 31 March 2015
An analysis of large-scale transmission power blackouts from 2005 to 2016
doi
10.1109/UPEC.2018.8541901
HAL
hal-02330748
"Explained: How 76 million people were hit by Turkey's worst blackout since 1999"

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