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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by themoop on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:24PM (#26139069)
Hydro-Quebec is also doing at least one 1500km hvdc to the US and multiple 1000+km lines to the dams in the north. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro-Qu%C3%A9bec%27s_electr...
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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by nikisweeting on Monday February 15, 2021 @11:56AM (#26144474)
If anyone is curious about this HVDC line and the Quebec grid in general I gave a small talk about it ;)

https://github.com/pirate/quebec-power-grid-talk

It's one of the only multi-terminal HVDC lines in the world, most of the others are just point-to-point.

They also literally short out the power lines with DC to warm them up and melt the ice off during ice storms, pretty crazy stuff.

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