Iowa State: Macrogrid Study - Big Value in Connecting America's Eastern and Western Power Grids
November 19, 2021
November 19, 2021
AMES, Iowa, Nov. 19 (TNSRes) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release:
Two of the biggest power grids on the planet are connected by seven small threads.
Those seven threads (technically, they're back-to-back, high-voltage, direct-current connections) join America's Eastern and Western interconnections and have 1,320 megawatts of electric-power handling capacity. (The seam separating the grids runs, roughly, from eastern Montana, down the wes . . .
Two of the biggest power grids on the planet are connected by seven small threads.
Those seven threads (technically, they're back-to-back, high-voltage, direct-current connections) join America's Eastern and Western interconnections and have 1,320 megawatts of electric-power handling capacity. (The seam separating the grids runs, roughly, from eastern Montana, down the wes . . .