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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* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

isn't the entirety of the US split into two separate grids? East and west? And also texas, because they're silly.

Like i'm pretty sure this is just, factually incorrect.

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

Sure but there are also regional divisions like on this map. There's even connections between Texas and East and West grids, they're not even totally separate

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

yeah regional divisions make sense, but i'm not sure why they would matter all that much, in the grand scheme of things it's not exactly "my problem"

I wouldnt be surprised if they weren't fully separate, from what i understand though, texas has a pretty much isolated grid since that allows them to get around federal regulations for power production. And the east and west would more than likely be a systems scale thing, it's just better to have it split down the middle. Considering how few people generally live there.

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

iirc they're connected via DC not AC so they have "local" control over maintaining the 60hz frequency.

You can see live stats here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

that would actually make a lot more sense, it would also explain why they're "separate" grids as well.