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To: xcr600 who wrote (13437)	8/17/2003 4:10:05 PM
From: Gulo	Respond to of 48461

OT, still. The "grid" is weak because it was never designed to carry large loads long distances. It is actually a collection of local grids connecting power plants with consumers. The interconnections between local grids are the problem. If power has to be shunted from one area to another across a number of intervening grids, it has to pass through choke points. When one local system has an issue, it forces transiting power to take other paths. If the other paths don't have the capacity, they develop issues of their own. The process then snowballs. If the "deregulation train" were on the right track in the first place, power generation would become much better distributed and closer to the end users. There would be minimal movement of power from one part of the country to another. The problem with the way the utilities are regulated is that it results in a counter-productive subsidy of large power plants. Although a large plant can generate electricity efficiently, large isolated plants would actually be less economical than distributed generation if the regulatory bias was removed. The higher efficiency of large plants does not compensate for transmission losses and the large amounts of capital required for large transmission lines. Security issues also favour distributed generation. The choice is not between "regulated" and "deregulated". "Deregulation" has not really occurred. Was has occurred is the breakup of some monopolies, and the transfer of some assets into private hands. The rules that increase the costs of distributed generation and subsidize centralized generation are still in place. Since the problem is the way it is regulated, at the very least we have to disassemble the current regulatory regime. -g BTW,back on topic... What do you guys currently think of TINE or TVIN?