westdonkeykong

Worst. AMA. Ever.

Since you are from India, how is the electrical utility industry run there? Can you sum up the big points already answered here from an Indian perspective?

An operator who sits on reddit and can't do math. How original.

I work in the electrical utility industry in Canada. In our province, things are "de-regulated," meaning that there are separate, privately owned companies for each portion of the industry. (Generation, transmission, distribution and the retailers.)

-How are things run in the UK in this regard? -Are these companies government operated or private? -How is competition between companies for pricing or service territories? -How is the price of power regulated? (Is it?) Are the utility companies regulated in any way? -You bitched about renewable energy sources, and I have some of the same gripes, mostly that they are unpredictable and still only account for the tiny fraction of generation. What is that fraction in the UK?

Thanks for doing the AMA, it's interesting to see how things are run in another part of the world!

Typically 25kV output, you can do the math to figure out current based on your MW output. Definitely stepped up. From what I'm used to working on, it's anywhere from 138kV to 500kV leaving the substation.