[time-nuts] Line Frequency standard change - Possible ?

David davidwhess at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 07:43:36 EST 2017


On Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:39:24 +0000, you wrote:

>It is harder than it sounds.
>
>Small solar inverters are the best, they an regulate down at milliseconds
>notice, and many jurisdictions impose asymetric frequency bands on
>them to exploit this.
>
>Big inverters, no matter what you put behind them, get quite a bit
>more expensive if they are designed to provide "non-VA" power,
>because you suddenly have to run the current both ways in the same
>half-cycle.
>
>Nobody wants to pay for that voluntarily, and nobody are particular
>keen to cause the first explosion/fire while they get the control-law
>debugged.

Imagine how they will scream if they have to pay for fields of big
synchronous motors to be connected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_condenser


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