I live near a huge windfarm, but my electric company doesn’t offer wind power.
How is that windfarm plugged into the grid? Is the electricity market just shares and not about the actual electricity produced and I’m technically using the wind power? Or does the windfarm physically “plug in” somewhere very distant to me? Since the wind is pretty continuously producing electricity will I never be picked to be in a rolling blackout? How do you even have those energy saving planned partial grid blackouts when there’s windpower?
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You have a transformer station that turns the AC produced by the wind farms into the correct current and potential difference to run along the grid. It is used in a mix with all other power sources.
Generally, they’re not constantly plugged in, but measure the current along the lines, if there is a drop, you turn on the generators to provide the slack.
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