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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by Gwypaas on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:36PM (#24748881)
All of Europe is already connected, here where I live in Sweden I don't even remember the last power outage. Happens like maybe once a year that you wake up or get home and the microwave clock has reset.

Map of the European grid: https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/

Synchronous grid of Continental Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...

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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by whiddershins on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:56AM (#24754365)
The thing you describe, a brief loss in power ‘about once a year’ almost never happens in my area of NYC and could actually damage sensitive equipment.

The most recent large blackout we had was IIRC specifically due to mismanaging the interconnected grid, which is part of where my concern comes from.

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