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Default Ideal electrical systems (just idle curiosity)

On 28/07/2014 14:20, Tim Watts wrote:
On 28/07/14 12:30, The Other Mike wrote:

How do you phase lock the French grid to the Belgian Grid to the Dutch
Grid to
the German one to the Swiss one etc etc. It doesn't in the main
involve DC and
at AC it is no real problem.


Are they phased locked? I don't know.

All the mainland European networks are phase locked by necessity, as
they move power from one to the other on a regular basis in all directions.

If they are, then they have relatively long borders which means lots of
interconnections.

They do.

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John.