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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
Are you seriously in the dark, or trolling, because the explanation exists, but is cumbersome to assemble for lay persons.
In the shortest possible snippet, power companies put a great deal of effort into transmitting a clean sine wave at a reliable magnitude and frequency. Solar and Wind collects DC power and ancillary devices rectify that power into an AC sine wave of, ideally, identical magnitude, frequency, and phase angle. To the extent their devices fall short, they are wasting their power and destroying a portion of the power the generation plant created.
Think double dutch coupled with Frogger, with the solar power being the rope jumper/frog.
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I wasn't trolling. I could certainly imagine inefficient solar and wind collectors, and inefficient transformers causing a loss of power from the source. But once converted, I really couldn't imagine different qualities of electricity because volts times amps equals watts and it's not like getting a bad tank of gas at the Quick Trip.
Line loss over large distances can be a factor, which is why power companies run their lines at such high voltage, but I still can't see how they could lose power by accepting a customer's excess. But I admit I don't really know ****all about it.