It’s getting harder to balance the power grid. Here’s why.

Meanwhile in the US, we have hundreds of private power companies whose only interest is extracting as much wealth as possible from all of us for their shareholders.

7:00 you said on a good day the importation of electricity into the uk could be reversed. But if wind power on the best day can only be half of uks demand, how can we export it? We won’t have excess energy to export. It’ll always be importing.

I loved this, I could watch 8 hours learning more.

My friend literally works at NESO this is crazy what the hell

We need Scotland to have more wind. Ship them beans!!!!

Here's an idea. Why not close ai data centers. And make affordable and renewable farm, or housing or schools.

This will affect the food shortage, or housing problem or unemployment or illiteracy rate or any major problem that we have.

9 left? We're so close already? I suppose being saddened is a good sign since it speaks to the quality of the series, but one can't help but feel sad just the same. Appreciate the continued content as always, and look forward to whatever's next whenever it comes around

Tom should say "Pretty mad, that!" at the end of his videos…

AI. AI is what its harder to balance the power grid now

Does the control room have a electricity supply meter or do they get a freebie?

Home batteries will help solve these issues with power storage and generation.

I had the opportunity to tour a power station in Texas and they mentioned the supply has to equal demand part. We were from the investor side so we were definitely interested in how you match the daily auctions with the long term regulatory supply requirements (sometimes you have to make less money than possible for example if your station said it will deliver x amount of power in x years and that window is closing then you'll have to bid lower on the daily auctions and give up that extra amount for less $) also with solar we discussed the duck curve, wish this video had more

In Australia there are industries that have agreed to have power reductions in return for lower prices. What nobody wants to talk about is that there is a list of suburbs that will have their power cutoff if their is excessive demand. This was necessary in Queensland because they blew up a generator. Due to the greater distances there are less transmission lines.

It is called grid inertia and contributes a lot to grid stability to withstand contingencies, because you cannot slow 300 tons of steel in an instant, the inertia keeps it spinning and generating long enough for emergency recovery to take place, this is seconds.

But now with so much renewables like solar and wind, there's nothing spinning, grid inertia is reduced a lot, if there is a contingency that's it, no inertia it collapsed like that, which is what happened in Spain, there was too much renewables at one time and a fault happened and all momentum is loss in an instant.

So to keep stability, many grids run conventional plants are part load, spinning reserve, idling for emergencies, which burns a lot of fuel and increases maintenance costs because these machines like to be full load always , for emissions, for efficiency, wear and tear. But they are run now cyclically, up an down as the wind blows, clouds etc.

All the costs just to keep grid stability? yup passed to customers.

Not an electrical engineer!!
but isn't DC more efficient for transferring over large distances but ac is more efficient for transforming the voltage and high voltage is more efficient than low voltage for transmission so we usually have ac… I believe over a long enough distance DC is more efficient even with the tradeoff… so saying ac is more efficient would be incorrect

Worked on Greenlink, designed some of the critical cable protection systems… Also many Scottish and English offshore wind farms. It's a brilliant industry to be in with a real tangible result, I'd recommend it to anyone

Incorrect on the frequency, most products today can deal with a wide frequency range. The Frequency is used as an indicator of grid balance of demand and supply, everyone is aiming for 50Hz, so if its a little low they know to push a little harder. Or its a little high they know to back off on the throttle for the plants, or to shut down or curtain generation, for example wind turbine can have their blades point more into the wind and extract less power from it, solar panels can be disconnected in batched, or the inverters can just push less hard.
Its the grids own feedback system.
Spinning Inertia provides extremely low level of storage, batteries can easily simulate it, and provide a bigger "ballast" or power reserve.

I find the design of that screen quite poor. There is waaaaaaay too much data on that screen for any human to comprehend. It is way too colourful as well. A well designed operator HMI should be boring and grey when all is operating as intended and only if a parameter somewhere deviates from the norm, should it become a noticable colour such that the operator notices that something requires his (/her) attention.

God help us if they fall out of sync

Interesting, but I don't understand how the title relates to the video.

The Fuel thing is so real. I bought a car for 100€ cause the owners said the immobilizer was broken.
The Issue was a dead fuel pump and absolutely disgusting fuel. Also threw on some spark plugs and she started up immediately xD

UK residents should really hear about Constraints and Curtailment payments that NESO has to give to Wind Farms every year. It is a stupid amount of money, over 400 million last year, to TURN OFF and stop generating. THIS is why we need better investment into the grid to get electricity where it needs to go and STOP building WIND FARMS. Or at least pause until the grid can keep up, it is costing everyone so much.

Id love to know what this room looked like in the 1970s.

10:00 "an unknown person, who didn't answer the question, did so using the following words".

Lovely