Sri Lank in blackout as power grid hit by cascading failure
https://economynext.com/sri-lank-in-blackout-as-power-grid-hit-by-cascading-failure-143218/
Sri Lanka suffered a blackout as Saturday evening as the state-run Ceylon Electricity Board grid was hit by a cascading power failure.
With hydro plants running flat out, a outage of the line tends to create a big imbalance in the demand and supply, leading to tripping of more lines and generators.
Sri Lanka last suffered a cascading failure in December 2021, due to the failure of the same transmission line.
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