If they placed an extra alternator on line to meet demand at Delimara and mis-judged the phase frequency match of the other alternators, a transient spike can be sent down the lines that can have terrible consequences to sub-station transformers down the line.

That is part of the reason of why very large and expensive capacitors are in series with the transmission lines after every stretch of good distance when transporting high tension power long ways away, to phase frequency match other power station output in places like in North America and the European continent.

Because in long distance power distribution you cannot guarantee 100% phase matching with separate distant generating stations all the time and every time.

But it has to be done, as large sub-stations would start to disintegrate in a very dramatic like what happened here at this Marsa distribution centre.

High tension power can do some very strange things and it is a whole engineering field ( or world ) on to its self, with its own strict rules. Mistakes are usually very catastrophic, unfortunately deadly and very costly in material terms.

Just my two cents on the matter.

And the usual threats of an ‘enquiry’ and that ‘those responsible will be held accountable’ bla bla bla… Usual national socialism to keep the Labour extremists quiet until they forget all about it.

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