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Probably my favorite anecdote about the grid synchronization behavior is that the generator governor settings (e.g. how to react to changes in frequency) were d
by maliker 9y ago
Probably my favorite anecdote about the grid synchronization behavior is that the generator governor settings (e.g. how to react to changes in frequency) were developed early in the 100 year+ history of the grid, and now we don’t fully understand why the settings were chosen to be what they are, and all the engineers who developed them are long dead.
Now that a bunch of wind and solar is being added to the grid with completely different control schemes, there’s a lot of concern about whether the system will continue to stay reliably synced.
- Tharkun 9y agoI thought that the frequencies were originally decided by whatever machine the generator was driving. Want your big saw to split logs at 100RPM? Make your water wheel drive a generator at 100Hz. IIRC every big motor was different and ran at its own frequency. Only when people started interconnecting these generators in a grid did the need to settle on a single frequency arrise.
- heavenlyblue 9y agoHN-worthy comment. Do we not have any electrical engineering degrees at the universities?
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