[chimera]

A little of both. The commentary I posted earlier relates to (relatively brief) time in the regional dispatching center. Balancing loads, dispatching generating assets, routing transmission, that kind of thing. But I have done time in power [plant control rooms as well, primarily in an advisory capacity, but have had occasion to be a “rod jockey”. All that was for experience and knowledge. Like I said, I didn’t want to work shifts, even though the pay differential was quite handsome. The money came in handy later, believe me.

[meyer]

A little of both.

Well, despite "deregulating" authoritarians, in terms of the physics, generation and transmission work together.

I put 'deregulating' in quotation marks because the industry has not been deregulated - it has been regulated in a different manner, and not necessarily one that molds itself well to the physical characteristics of power system dynamics. When I was at TVA, which wasn't quite as drastically affected by deregulation, I could yell across the room to the hydro power dispatcher if I needed a change in generation allocation to alleviate a congestion problem without consequence. Try that with today's ISO!