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Importance of inertia in the electrical grid

markdougmcd

This week's Economist is a must read for energy industry folks and contains the second article in a year specifically on inertia in the electrical grid. For the uninitiated - you'll say "the who in the what"? 


This is likely the most important upcoming technological problem on the world's largest machine - the grid - and the Economist does an artful job describing it in seemingly effortless prose. 


"This means that they can be programmed to provide the grid with energy in exactly the form and at the frequency that the grid operators require, making up for the loss of ancillary services. Grid-forming inverters offer a step change away from the world of instantiated electromagnetism and into a realm of code and electronics."


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