I remember a meeting with Soviet engineers back in the 70’s at an international conference for power engineers. When discussion came to
Procedures to maintain power to as many customers as possible during repairs, the Soviets were puzzled. They said “we don’t do all that, we just shut off customers until we repair the problem. It is cheaper. The westerners were astounded at their lack of concern for electrical customers. They had no need of redundancy, etc for reliability.
The impact of no energy security and the government in charge of energy security. With the plethora of free government give aways and grifters taking the money just to disappear the USA isn’t far behind.
Sadly for the Cubans they have some experience of blackouts. And in consequence have had to develop partial coping mechanisms. When this happens in a pampered "developed" world location it will be very messy indeed.
I remember a meeting with Soviet engineers back in the 70’s at an international conference for power engineers. When discussion came to
Procedures to maintain power to as many customers as possible during repairs, the Soviets were puzzled. They said “we don’t do all that, we just shut off customers until we repair the problem. It is cheaper. The westerners were astounded at their lack of concern for electrical customers. They had no need of redundancy, etc for reliability.
The impact of no energy security and the government in charge of energy security. With the plethora of free government give aways and grifters taking the money just to disappear the USA isn’t far behind.
Sadly for the Cubans they have some experience of blackouts. And in consequence have had to develop partial coping mechanisms. When this happens in a pampered "developed" world location it will be very messy indeed.