• supertrucker@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    In terms of area, aren’t the size of the various American grids roughly the same size as the ones that comprise the individual countries in Europe?

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The bigger the grid the bigger the impact of failure (which does happen) and the harder to get it back up.

    You want a grid big enough to have some variety in use, generation, and weather, but not so big that one malfunction takes out everyone.

    Aside from Texas, the US grid is just fine.

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      3 months ago

      Quite the opposite, bigger grids are much more stable. When faults happen, tiny subsets of the grid get disconnected from the rest, it does not take the whole thing down at all…