The Steady (but Speedy) Technology March of Demand Response

摘要

Large, rotating masses are the unsung heroes of reliability on the electric grid. Loads come and go, but our Newtonian friends, Momentum and Inertia, make order from chaos. They provide precious seconds for dispatch to react to large load excursions while smaller ones disappear as noise, swallowed by the flywheel effect and some really smart automated controls.