Hacker News with Generative AI: Power Grids

Why restarting a power grid is so hard (arstechnica.com)
Since the Iberian Peninsula lost power in a massive blackout, grid operators are in the process of trying to restore power to millions of customers and businesses.
Power Grids, Blackouts, Infrastructure
13 points by dangle1 25 days ago | 1 comments
The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997) (ieee.org)
History, Electrical Engineering, Power Grids
171 points by theamk 105 days ago | 251 comments
US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years (theguardian.com)
Faced with worsening climate-driven disasters and an electricity grid increasingly supplied by intermittent renewables, the US is rapidly installing huge batteries that are already starting to help prevent power blackouts.
Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Energy Storage, Power Grids, United States
18 points by toomuchtodo 208 days ago | 12 comments
Some Aus states are discovering what happens when they've too much rooftop solar (theguardian.com)
Alerts to possible power shortfalls have become a familiar occurrence. But experts say it won’t be long before the opposite is common
Renewable Energy, Australia, Power Grids, Climate Change
6 points by rustoo 224 days ago | 6 comments
Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts (technologyreview.com)
Battery-swap networks, Energy Storage, Power Grids, Electric Vehicles
136 points by belter 346 days ago | 105 comments