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Yo_Mama

(8,303 posts)
8. It's because it destabilizes their grid!
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 10:29 PM
Nov 2013

Really, dude.
http://www.icis.com/heren/articles/2011/12/12/9515924/germany-faces-struggle-to-balance-electricity-system-as-loop-flows.html
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9205

The Poles are planning their own Baltic wind, if you care:
http://amcham.pl/file/pdf/atkins.pdf

But they will have grid balancing problems when they do it. The Poles, especially, have been discussing the German blockade for years, but the connection of the offshore wind farms without the north/south German lines probably pushed them over.

It's also a problem for the Czechs:
http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2013/04/epn2013444p16.pdf

I realize from previous discussions that you simply do not understand anything about how power grids work, but if you read the last link, you'll find an explanation of the situation and the news that the Czechs are also installing phase shifters in 2016, not because they want the additional expense but because they are experiencing multiple problems, and it has now dawned on them that the problems will only get worse. Before the Germans were telling their neighbors that it was temporary. Now they know it's not.

Keeping the power on is no small task and it is important.

Lastly, if you really believe that any utility company spends money to avoid getting essentially free electricity that it can then sell to customers, you have an amazing, but not admirable, mind.

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