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by new4thaccount 2611 days ago
In the USA a very large geographical subsection can lose many GW of instantaneous wind generation across an hour, which can be concerning if the system is currently running pretty economic (not a whole lot of excess reserves).

The way dispatch is done is completely different than the way it was done 10 years ago and also completely different than the way it was designed in so many ways.