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Just for my own reference, is transferring power from Eastern Oregon to Western Oregon a reasonably efficient thing to do? How much power is lost when we move i
by LargeTomato 3y ago
Just for my own reference, is transferring power from Eastern Oregon to Western Oregon a reasonably efficient thing to do? How much power is lost when we move it across an area the size of Oregon?
- mjevans 3y agoLess of a loss than selling energy from Texas to California. Edit: Much more information generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Losses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo... "For example, a 100 mi (160 km) span at 765 kV carrying 1000 MW of power can have losses of 0.5% to 1.1%. A 345 kV line carrying the same load across the same distance has losses of 4.2%."
- margalabargala 3y agoWikipedia tells me that high voltage lines transmitting 1GW at normal grid voltages will have losses of about 1% over a distance of 100 miles, which is honestly quite a lot. That's 100kW per mile. Oregon is only a couple hundred miles across, so it's feasible, but with more losses than I thought when I looked it up to answer you.