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Igor Janke: "On Monday, May 17, at 4:34 PM, a transformer station serving almost the entire largest power plant in Poland malfunctioned. 3.6 GW of power..." — True

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True. The claim is true. On May 17, 2021, a serious malfunction occurred at the Rogowiec switchgear station, leading to the shutdown of 10 out of 11 units of the Bełchatów Power Plant, resulting in a loss of approximately 3.6-...

"On Monday, May 17, at 4:34 PM, a transformer station serving almost the entire largest power plant in Poland malfunctioned. 3.6 GW of power 'dropped out' of the system in one second. [...] The grid frequency dropped slightly below 49.9 Hz, which was felt across the entire synchronous operating area of the UCTE system, from North Africa through almost all of Europe, up to Turkey. Polish energy officials say human error was to blame for a massive outage at Europe's largest brown coal power plant of Belchatow last month and a separate fire there just days later, according to the state PAP news agency." "Z kolei w roku 2021 elektrownia Bełchatów aż dwa razy zanotowała potężną usterkę. Pierwszy przypadek to awaria stacji rozdzielczej Rogowiec, która wyrzuciła z systemu elektroenergetycznego prawie całą moc elektrowni Bełchatów. Skutki tego były odczuwalne nawet w Afryce Północnej, bo tam aż sięgnęły zaburzenia częstotliwości sieci."
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ników elektrowni Bełchatów i wjechała na teren tej jednostki. Trzeba powiedzieć wprost, ci ludzie wjechali pod przebraniem na teren największej polskiej elektrowni, która dysponuje mocą ponad 5 GW. Aktywiści wspięli się potem na obiekty elektrowni i wywiesili tam swoje transparenty, co pokazuje, że byli w stanie dostać się tam również ze sprzętem. Z kolei w roku 2021 elektrownia Bełchatów aż dwa razy zanotowała potężną usterkę. Pierwszy przypadek to awaria stacji rozdzielczej Rogowiec, która wyrzuciła z systemu elektroenergetycznego prawie całą moc elektrowni Bełchatów. Skutki tego były odczuwalne nawet w Afryce Północnej, bo tam aż sięgnęły zaburzenia częstotliwości sieci. Nieco ponad tydzień po tym incydencie elektrownię Bełchatów dotknął pożar taśmociągu, który wyrzucił z systemu największy blok tej jednostki. To pokazuje, że nie trzeba wcale pełnoskalowej ani nawet hybrydowej wojny, żeby nasza energetyka znalazła się w bardzo opłakanej sytuacji. To oczywiście nie wszystkie wąskie gardła polskiej energetycznej inf

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