The Electrical Grid and Electricity Supply | A Simple Explanation

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▶️How Electrical Grids Work
Electrical power is predominantly generated in power stations although smaller generation sites now exist (solar panel installations etc.). More than 95% of the world’s electrical power is generated from turbines. Turbines act as prime movers and cause rotors within generators to rotate.
Once electrical power has been generated, it is distributed through a series of conductors (think of copper or aluminium cables) to an electrical transformer.
Electrical transformers increase voltage and consequently reduce the current (Ohms law), but the power remains roughly the same. It is necessary to increase the voltage to reduce power losses (P=I^2R), but it also allows for the use of smaller conductors to be used. Transformers that increase voltage are referred to as ‘step-up’ transformers.
Conductors then feed from the transformer to a series of transmission towers (electrical pylons). Power reaches the area where it will be consumed and is reduced in voltage by a step-down transformer (voltage reducing transformer).
The equipment necessary to increase and reduce voltage (transformers, breakers, surge arresters etc.) are housed within structures known as ‘substations’ (normally open air switchyards).
It may be necessary to reduce the voltage several times until it reaches a level that is suitable for consumers (10 kV, 6 kV, 3 kV, 380 V etc.). The voltage required by consumers depends upon how the electrical power is utilised. Industrial plants require 3 phase medium voltage power whilst residential areas require single phase (1 phase) 220 V or 110 V. The power grid is split into generation, transmission and distribution sections.
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11:05 The reason that the transformer core is a bunch of laminate (insulated) metal sheets instead of a solid piece of steel, is to reduce magnetic field eddy currents. The purpose of the ferrous core is to merge the two coils' fields for greater induction efficiency; however, each electrified coil is turning the ferrous core into an electromagnet; and THIS electromagnet produces an additional magnetic field (the aforementioned eddy current). This eddy current works against the efficiency of the whole system! So the solution is "divide and conquer" and use several very small pieces of steel which are electrically insulated from one another, and this prevents the core from becoming a giant electromagnet (but rather numerous very weak ones).

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Hoping you can answer two questions I have on this topic: 1) What happens to electricity that is not consumed by the end users of the line? 2) How much extra energy is produced by an average grid as to prevent brown outs in everyday demand on the grid?

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would conduction work in pure vacuum as it does for air conduction?

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I have a doubt about the losses’ entity. Known that power lost is PL=R*I^2, we also have I=V/R, so PL=V^2/R. R remains constant since it depends only from the material properties and the wires’ length and diameter, so the losses also go with the square of the voltage. Hence why is it actually more convenient to use low current and high voltage?

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Very good point and somehow seldom properly explained. When they talk about high voltage, they mean high voltage compared with the ground. So there is a lot of excess charge in the power lines. However, the difference between the excess charges on one end of the power line and the other side is very small. This means that the voltage difference on just the power line is very small, hence also the small current.

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Isn't the Primary Consumer voltage supposed to be 0.4kV?

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I'm a little confused about the relationship between V=IR and P=VI. With P=VI, increasing the voltage means current goes down because power is the same, but with V=IR, increasing the voltage means current goes up because resistance remains the same. So in a step up transformer, if the secondary coil has a higher voltage and lower current, doesn't that mean it must also have a higher resistance than the primary coil? Otherwise V=IR wouldn't be obeyed because V is going up while I is going down, so R has to make up the difference.

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Ohms law only applies to completely resistive circuits, transformers aren't purely resistive as they also have a magnetic component, with the core being a magnetic circuit and the windings being inductors, hence they have inductance values, it's quite a complex topic to explain, but I suggest searching "transformer equivalent circuit" and you'll get your answer eventually lol.

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How many klm in the national grid. How much does the grid cost to build per klm. Why build more than one line of transmission towers. Just use one ? Did the national grid take a century to construct ? If no fossil fuels in the future do we need 5 times more electricity, 5 times more grid capacity and 5 times more generators ??? I think that the grid is the killer cost to an electrical grid future. Great minds discuss ideas.😊😊 Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.😮

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Electricity is managed, not "manufactured ". High voltage dont require a constant imput of coal or gas to boil water to make steam to turn some massive generator that "pumps " current along a billion miles of wires. Instead high voltage is balanced in a resonant loop and is coupled to ground through transformers. The current that runs our devices strictly from the secondary coil of that pole transformer dont "draw " energy from a frickin fuel fed machine. There is no physical wire connecting our stuff to anything pass this point. The flow of current to ground is as natural as lighting . If theres a proper air conditioner, heater , stove ect, in the way , oh well. There's no doubt ,to design buid and maintain the grid is costly. Now days computers controlled voltage regulators and what nots are managing the show , theres really no need to have some guy turn the big power dial up or down .

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