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| The grid isn't too bad, it supports ALL the loads 99.99% of time. Its just that its not robust enough over long distances to let NY get power from BLM dams along the upper Missouri River that produce 4 cent a KWH power or from similar low cost Columbia River sources. Somehow there's plenty of local users so making a sturdier grid to the population centers means those living and working near the BLM projects will end up paying a lot more for power from coal and wind plants.
Wind farms are showing up weak local grids in Iowa. Local investors put up 5 or 6 wind turbines near Jefferson in Greene County, but can only run 4 at a time because the local grid can't carry the power of all of them. They didn't hire an electrical engineer, I suppose.
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Storing windmill power
