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Power Electronics Help to Control Electrical Grids
An anonymous reader writes: "IEEE Spectrum magazine has a timely article about how power electronics are proving necessary for the widespread connection of wind turbines to the electric power grid. It explains many issues that currently make it difficult to utilize wind power. Older articles discuss other issues affecting the nation's power grid."
Yeah, but Gray Davis was the govenor in California who signed the deregulation bill that allowed Enron to manipulate the market in a house-of-cards sham.
The fact is, there's plenty of dumb regulatory moves on both sides to go around here. There all of the "rules" that apply to interconnecting grids are just industry standards, there's no punishment for breaking them. When such a weak regulatory system is in place, nothing much stops an Enron-like group of cheaters from stepping in and making a profit off of the mess at the expense of the public.
So, segment, you don't need to worry about off topic mods... it's -1 Flamebait that you posted. There's no room for either party to blame this on the other, they all failed and better get their act together and come up with something that keeps this from happening again.