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What Is Happening When Agrid Trips Up and Fails?
Energy demand is moved slowly across the state because it's so wide. No one's turning on their coffee machine all at once across an entire gigantic state, right? We can roll that power around. And there's also the weather to think about. Electricity needed more when there's extreme weather. But texas is so big that there's really hardly ever a moment when there's the same weather all across the state. So that really lets you kind of move the power around where it's needed. Having enough power to meet electric demand, that's critical. Otherwise the entire system trips up and you start seeing blackouts.
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