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How many people are connected to "small grids" today in California?

• bombcar 3y ago
  Everyone is, because the grid is built out of smaller grids. You and some number of your neighbors are connected to a transformer, some number of those transformers are connected to a larger transformer, and so on up the chain until you have an actual large grid.
  • sbierwagen 3y ago
    Okay, but this thread is talking about billing, right? That's the point of talking about costs. How many people in California are paying their electricity bills to a utility that covers just their neighborhood, and nobody else?
    • bombcar 3y ago
      The thread was talking about non-rooftop solar overloading the grid. But you don’t have to go straight from non-rooftop to multi square mile power plant - you can have an intermediary that would reduce grid stress and not increase it.