My assumption is that electrical providers own their generators. So when they generate electricity, it goes out into this massive repository that is the electrical grid and then all consumers take at will from it.
So how do electrical providers keep track of “their” electricity and who is consuming it? Electrical production has to meet demand in real time so how do providers know who is responsible for generating how much at any given moment?
And how do the companies that own the power lines factor into this? Are they at all related to the power generation companies or are the latter just customers?
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Each individual house has an electric meter that measures how much electrical energy is going into just that one house.
And then some guy from the electric company comes to each house once a month to read the meters and note how much energy each house is using.
Or more often nowadays a “smart meter” can send that data to the electric company remotely.
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