How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy?
One question about the grid I've never wrapped my head around:So the entire grid is in phase, by which I mean every generator, load, &c is operating on the same AC pulse (handwave-handwave ignoring smaller loads, transformations, etc.). But that phase isn't instantaneous; it's near-light, and the grid is long enough for that to matter in places.So every point in the grid can't be perfectly in phase with every other point, right? Because we have both lightspeed delays and loops, so even if point A is receiving power from two substations in-phase, point B (with different lengths of wire to those two substations) should be receiving it out-of-phase, right? How do we balance that in the grid?