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California is part of the WECC, it is not isolated at all.
by applied_heat 3y ago
California is part of the WECC, it is not isolated at all.
- thehappypm 3y agoThe Southwest region is certainly geographically isolated; however California is doing its best to fight that with connections such as with the PNW, but those are long distance and California is still susceptible to power outages from a few weak links .
- applied_heat 3y ago“California currently has 18,170MW (18.2 GW) of interconnections to neighboring states in the Western Interconnection, equivalent to approximately one-third of its annual peak electricity demand.“ In my view, 33% of annual peak is not weakly interconnected. Granted that number is from 2003. I work on hydro electric plant control systems not transmission planning so I can’t say what industry insiders would call weakly interconnected, but on the systems I have worked on one or two ties is weakly interconnected and dozens is not. https://www.electricpowergroup.com/Downloads/pFinalCAElecGenTransNeeds11-17T3.pdf https://www.electricpowergroup.com/Downloads/pFinalCAElecGen...