Comment on How India’s power crisis is self-made & why we could face another crunch during the monsoon
x0x7@wolfballs.com 1 year ago
Almost all power crisises are self made. It's actually pretty easy to make a grid and allow people to contribute to it, and it's such a simple business model. Usually all power crises come from someone being afraid of pure economics. They always have to have a twist and it's usually that twist that causes the problem.
Texas had a near perfect grid. But it had three twists, which like always, come back to bite you. The good? The price of electricity both for contribution and use was set by the amount that the electrical line varied in voltage and frequency. When a grid is under powered it becomes under volted and has under-frequency from physical generators hooked to it lagging. So if that is happening, even the smallest amount, the price has to go up and more power turns on. It works. Here are the twists they had to add. There was a price cap, they wouldn't allow out of grid contribution (isolated from other states), they incentivized wind with subsidies instead of allowing natural investment tuned to the problem of reliability to dominate.
Legislators can't allow something to be simple. They have to assume their opinions are useful. Everywhere power has had significant and maintained dysfunction someone had to do something stupid to the economics.
Monarque@wolfballs.com 1 year ago
You would even think that places like India would be most interested in doing it this way.
The reason that they do not likely goes back to the special relationships with private electric companies and coal miners & distributors have with the politicians.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 1 year ago
Like everything else BIG govt manages, electricity outages are the product of public incompetency rather than private sector. An example of private sector efficiency in India ? Cheapest mobile data in the world 9 cents per GB in 2020
India's biggest enemy is its own huge size. A population 50% bigger than Europe combined, managed by 1 BIGGGG ASSS Govt. You US folk know what happens....
Even the State govt's dwarf entire nations. 1 state has bigger population than Russia. Centralised power sucks
Monarque@wolfballs.com 1 year ago
I believe it is the case that the tech providers in my country fix prices together and only incrementally improve. Honestly we have shitty plans and a decade of competition has never improved it.
Oligarchs make socialism, imo, to fleece us better.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 1 year ago
Question is, what kind of 'competition'. In the US, mobile providers have 'competition', but they work together to take monopolistic control of regions.
In India too, there is similar corruption, but its still a growing market and the providers will rather fight each other than make such deals.