Let’s Build a Global Power Grid

Reports abound of homeowners and businesses unplugging from the power grid and opting instead to generate and store their own electricity. Such grid defections may make sense in places where electricity rates are sky-high or service is spotty. But for just about everywhere else, it’s far more sensible to do the very opposite: interconnect regional electricity networks to form a globe-spanning supergrid.

The smaller and more isolated a power network is, the more difficult it is to maintain the nearly instantaneous balance between electricity supply and demand.

By Clark W. Gellings

Full Story: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/lets-build-a-global-power-grid

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Many thanks to Grid expert Dan Trudnowski at Montana Tech for sharing.