Message from @r.lupus
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If you have extra capacity, that regulation ensures that you make the same profit selling to rival companies that you get from selling to your own customers.
extra capacity is the only thing that can prevent the blackout short of sheding a portion of the load intentionally
If you have power to spare, then you should be eager to sell that shit because you'll make money from it.
A mandate-to-sell-if-available simply ensures that a big company can't willfully allow a blackout to occur in a rival company's lines if they have the power to stop it from happening.
you do realize that the removal and addition of capacity to a distribution bus is automatic based on the voltage level?
remember, blackouts are inconviences
brown outs destroy equipment
there is no, "shit voltage is dropping on the bus, call our rival and see what they will charge"
You're assuming that you can't have an algorithm that automatically makes the purchase.
there is just, "oh look, GEN10-15 just started and are paralleling to thebus... must be a demand spike"
If they don't have enough to meet the order, then they buy from another company.
...and if that company doesn't have enough to fill the order, THEY buy from another company.
Thus creating the system we have now, except it's possibly to breakup the monopolies and have actual competition.
no, you are assuming power is purchased discretely BEFORE consumption and it can be done ad-hoc
that arrangement is made before hand and whatever happens, happens
So you're saying you can't have electric meters at the connections between companies, where the balance of power flow determines who charges who how much for a certain number of MW/h.
that isn't what you said before though
It kind of is.
Same system they use for selling to residential homes.
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in order to purchase from another company, that competitor must have a way to feed YOUR customers
It's not like I'm calling up the electric company right now, and negotiating a price for a certain number of KW over the next five hours because I'm not done arguing with a fucking jackass on the internet.
I pull a certain amount of juice, and I get billed for however much I pull.
but before, you said each company would own the specific line
or portion of the grid
how does THEIR power, reach YOUR customers and how do you limit this ONLY to what is required
Reminder, we do GENUINELY believe that MA has schizophrenia.
That competitor doesn't need a direct line to your customer's homes.
They just need a hookup to your own electric grid, with a meter that measures the flow of electricity and companies get billed accordingly. Same rate that residential customers pay.
Unironically.
If company A charges a certain price, and company B charges a certain price, one of those companies gets billed by the other based on the flow of electricity and the net-contributor's price to residential consumers.
how does their power get onto your grid while also supplying THEIR gird id these are two distinctly seprate grids with seperate ownership
Same way we move power from Chicago to Oklahoma City.
a company cannot give you or sell you what they do not have
Oklahoma Gas and Electric buys power from other states all the time. We also sell to other states all the time.
Yeah, and if they don't have it they buy it from someone else.
we don't move power chicago to oklahoma
If nobody has it, then some asshole with one of those expensive gas generators gets to make a killing for a little while.
that is an illusion; 400mi or so
otherwise LOSES due to heat
Losses are only 2% of total electric production under the current system.
the power closest to the customer is what in actuallity is consumed