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It's risky to connect your grid to another country's. ex: Canada's grid is connected to the USA, but now the USA is being hostile to Canada.
by 1over137 2y ago
It's risky to connect your grid to another country's. ex: Canada's grid is connected to the USA, but now the USA is being hostile to Canada.
- twodave 2y agoI mean, logistically speaking everybody is already depending on the US pretty much. So you could say this about every country in the world from one perspective or another.
- Hamuko 2y agoMoldova (+ Transnistria), Russia and Ukraine are also in a fight over gas deliveries that make up a significant chunk of Moldova's electricity.
- _njyk 2y agoThree countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are disconnecting from Russia literally in 2 weeks for that specific reason, so it's an horrible idea to interconnect everything in the current world.
- guax 2y agoThat seems like a problem of a single large provider and not a connectivity problem. It's a monopoly issue that would be less of a problem if a single or even a minority of players were not the largest producer. At least electricity can be produced more broadly than gas where you had to win the lottery of location or game of Thrones of imperialism.
- 1over137 2y ago>That seems like a problem of a single large provider and not a connectivity problem. No, it sounds like a problem of a belligerent super power next door.
- danny_codes 2y agoSuper power is a bit of a stretch. Regional power being more accurate.
- ElevenLathe 2y agoWouldn't it be best to leave the connections open just in case? I get not wanting to give the Kremlin a big button that says "black out Estonia" but as long as they can also get juice from the EU grid too, what's the problem? I suppose it's an issue of grid synchronization? If so, DC links could be used on politically tenuous connections on the global power network.