• @mipadaitu
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    -102 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 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…

    • Carl
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      11 month ago

      The colors of the grids represent CO2 emissions