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Re:California Declares Grid Emergency by Spivak on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:29AM (#32676763)
> Mid-west can't handle some major wind or ice storms

Been though those, I don't really think "storm knocks out power lines" is the kind of problem people are talking about when it comes to grid reliability though. No amount of coal is going to keep the line from getting cut.

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Re:California Declares Grid Emergency by epistasis on Thursday September 01, 2022 @02:42PM (#32681058)
A largely renewables+storage grid will help these sorts of outages greatly, however. Most major grid outages can be traced back to things like squirrels bringing down transmission.

Once we have a bunch of storage, and are used to doing grid ops on lots of intermittent generation sources, grid reliability will go up because a power line going down will have lots of potential mitigations that are not possible today.

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