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[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 15 points 1 year ago

Quite frankly, you might consider whether the idea of "the grid" is even a good idea in todays world. Perhaps smaller, more independent, resilient grids that power a single city or single neighborhoods in a city are what is needed so that if one major grid outage happens, it doesn't knock absolutely everybody off at once. The people who do grid tie solar that when the grid goes out kills their solar as well are crazy. They could put in a transfer switch that senses loss of the grid and stops transmitting the power back upstream and use it themselves.

[-] geeb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

This is quite literally the opposite of what we need. Not only do we need more interconnection capacity to be able to locate renewables where they will be most effective but interconnection capacity is going to be crucial with the increased frequency of severe weather events as other grid regions will be able to support others under stress.

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