[thackney]

The PRIMARY advantage that you have over the rest of the grid(s) is that you are smaller in size - which is the very thing I have been advocating.

No, the primary advantage we have is we build the generation sufficient to carry our load with enough reserve to handle unscheduled combined with planned outages. So far, the NIMBY crowd has not forced us to rely on other to meet our own demands, unlike CA and much of the Northeast.

[taxcontrol]

No, the primary advantage we have is we build the generation sufficient to carry our load with enough reserve to handle unscheduled combined with planned outages

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I would say that is a function of smaller grids. Perhaps that is a point of view difference. Perhaps we can agree that one problem faced by others is that they require a significant portion of their load to be imported?

This dependancy on others to produce power inherits risk and thus makes their systems more vulnerable.