Grid can shift into "safe mode"
A power grid with distributed capacitance can go into a "safe mode" where all the interconnects are severed either regionally, locally, or even down the the neighborhood level, and run independently for a few minutes (or even hours) while the problem is sorted out.
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Grid can shift into "safe mode"
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