An inter-connected
web of wires covers North America (the entire globe, for that matter). You’ve
probably seen them so often, that you don’t even notice them anymore. A useful
way to think about them is like the public road and highway system.
Just like
the road and highway system, its design is very ‘organic’.
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You have some big, high-capacity
lines for long-distance transportation (veins & arteries)…
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...connected to many smaller
lines for local distribution (capillaries and arterioles).
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The
entire web, we call ‘the grid’.
Some have argued that the distribution of electricity is the
only ‘natural monopoly’ in existence. Let’s take a look at how this fits
with the current deregulation that's occurring in North America. |
