By Max Efrein | The Daily Courier
Many utility companies throughout the Southwest are having to address limitations with the electrical grid as renewable energies grow in popularity.
All major utilities in the western U.S. are interconnected. They are what is called a “balancing authority.”
This equates to one big interconnected pool of power and every balancing authority is responsible to maintain frequency at 60 Hertz so as not to disrupt the flow of energy.