Since, and unless electricity has properties I’m not aware of, it’s not possible for electric power plants to produce only and EXACTLY the amount of electricity being drawn at an given time, and not having enough electricity for everyone is a VERY bad thing, I’m assuming the power plants produce enough electricity to meet a predicted average need plus a little extra margin. So, if this understanding is correct, where does that little extra margin go? And what kind of margin are we talking about?
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That is exactly what happens. The generators reduce their output to match the load.
So the bot doesn’t remove this comment, the way this achieved is by frequency regulation. If there is too much generation the frequency rises, too little it falls.
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