Some countries produce too much electricity at a certain period of the year, and have to pay another country to get rid of their extra own unconsumed electricity. Why can’t a power plant produce more electricity than consumed, what’s the physical obstacle to do so?
Also, what will the receiving country do if this surplus of electricity is again not consumed entirely?
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What we define as electricity is the flow of subatomic particles known as electrons.
If you have more electrons flowing through the system then what it needs eventually the system will begin to overheat and parts of it will break down.
Large scale energy storage is extremely problematic. Making batteries large enough or insufficient quantities to be usable on a reason why power grid is not impossible but impractical enough to where it might as well be.
There are methods of energy storage that use physics like using energy to store water and then have it run downhill to run turbines but those methods are f****** huge take up a lot of area and would be very expensive to implement.
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