Where does excess power go when the grid generates too much?

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The national grid go to great effort to generate just enough electricity to keep everything going, but the now batteries or storage. Where does unused electricity go?

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Minor discrepancies between supply and demand only result in changes in the voltage and frequency of the supply. Effectively the end-users are either force-fed or starved, but by such a small amount that nobody notices.

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