By definition the grid is decentralized. That’s what makes it a grid. Resiliency of the grid is a function of excess capacity but not the number of nodes.

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V__ 3 days ago | parent [-]

I am no expert but remembering the grid outage in Spain this year, which was caused by a substation or node failure and not by a capacity problem. Wouldn't it be fair to describe resiliency as a combination of both capacity and nodes?

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mpweiher 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The Spainout was caused by having too little rotating mass in the grid that stabilizes the frequency.

There was a trigger in some of the PV systems, but that wasn't the underlying cause.

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StopDisinfo910 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, interconnectedness is critical if you want reliability.

Spain has far too little transnational capacities. That was a significant contributing factor in the grid outage.

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mulmen 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If you want to change the topic of this conversation to distribution resiliency instead of production resiliency then sure.

	▲	V__ 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I had both of these as a single concept in my head, thus the confusion.