Sudden load reduction in a steam power plant

WITH a generating capacity considerably in excess of its local busload, the Sherman Creek generating station of the New York Consolidated Edison Company has to depend on one high-capacity tie to connect it with the rest of the system. Use of the major portion of the plant´s capacity, therefore, depends on this tie feeder to transmit all of the plant´s output that is not needed for the local bus load. At certain times the plant generates ten times the local load.