the.com/electric grid
A nationwide improv show where supply and demand must agree in real time, forever.
means The interconnected network of power plants, transmission lines, and substations that generates electricity and delivers it to homes and businesses on demand.
from 'Electric' traces back to the Greek 'elektron,' meaning amber — because ancient observers noticed that rubbing amber produced a static charge, and that odd little spark eventually named an entire force of nature. 'Grid' comes from 'gridiron,' the old cooking grate made of parallel bars, which gave its crosshatch shape to anything arranged in a network of intersecting lines — maps, city blocks, and eventually the sprawling lattice of wires that carries power across a country.
- storage problem
- electricity is made and used in the same instant
- blackout cause
- usually trees, not hackers or terrorists
- three grids
- US splits into East, West, and Texas, on purpose
- frequency rule
- 60Hz must hold steady or equipment starts failing