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> And you want it to run the grid and not the other way around.

As simple as it is, this really blew my mind. I never considered that all the plants need to work together, as a system, each with "inertia", but all without ringing/oscillations. Thanks, I'll need to dig into this deeper!

I can only assume that having grid batteries can really clean things up.



The turbines have some perks in this. Batteries can supply power, but they are not as good in smoothing things out than actual large physical masses in thermal power plants and hydro plants.

But it is kinda amazing to know that all of these generators run essentially in sync. If one slows down all of them slow done.




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