However, perhaps unlike North America, the system would tend to consist of national grids which are interconnected at points rather than one pan European grid. I don't think you could get the cascade effect that happened in the North East of the US / South East of Canada.
Yup. The
UCTE has strict requirements for grids that wishes to be connected to the UCTE grid (which simply consists of the national grids of UCTE countries). If you don't have enough reserve power (long term), you'll be refused connection. I don't know what they do with countries that are already connected but starts to cheat.
Some countries are split between different grids: Half of Denmark is connected to Germany (UCTE), the other half to Sweden (Nordel). Ukraine is split between the grid of the former Soviet Union (CIS) and the UCTE grid.
[This message has been edited by C-H (edited 09-15-2003).]
