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Has to be those frozen wind turbines and solar panels... (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Source - The colors of the grids represent CO2 emissions

The title is a reference to the 2021 Texas power crisis

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The part about the texas crisis made me think it's about why the USA is not a single grid, while Europe is one.

Iirc one big reason made the crisis that severe was their grid is separate, so they couldn't buy electricity from other states.

Also if that's the case than using screenshots from that webside is quite misleading. That site uses live data, so if the 2 screenshots were taken at the same time, one of the continents was at night, so solar panels were not working... An avarege or aggregate map should be used, not live data

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how it works in Europe, but power grids being privatized is a big issue in USA. It's essentially a monopoly where one company owns and operates the grids in one or a few states. There's no incentive to maintain the grid because there's no competition and they receive government funding whenever a crisis like this occurs. It's cheaper to just eat the fines than it is to buy electricity from neighboring states.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

because there's no competition

I think competition is not part of problem here. Privatization is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Iirc one big reason made the crisis that severe was their grid is separate, so they couldn't buy electricity from other states.

There was video on Practical Engieneering about this. They could and did until power line protection tripped.