Interesting reading, thanks for that wa2ise.
Didn't hear anything in our news about it though.
POCO's do have LV tiepoints so they can close links or fuses in case one or two transformers are out of service without immediate loss of power.
But with 22 feeders out it is simply impossible to backfeed that through the 120 Volts system.
It may have been possible that a major LV tie point was closed somewhere between two big transformers and that caused some smoke and melting of cables, which the media always like anyway to spice up their story.
But with soaring heat and airco's running 24/7 and all the extra's in the majority of houses the electricity grid is well and truely overloaded in a lot of big cities around the world.
