Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Power Systems. 6 pages.
Five milestones that removed the distance limit on electricity supply, decided a commercial contest fought partly by public smear, and ended in the two systems being combined ra…
Three milestones in which electricity moved into railway traction, and in which the alternating-versus-direct argument was fought again under different constraints.
Two milestones whose importance lies in decades of accumulated process improvement rather than in a breakthrough, and in what a zero marginal fuel cost does to a power system.
Six milestones in which electricity acquired its first mass market, and in which the decisive engineering turned out to be system design rather than lamp design.
Three milestones that made stored electricity dense enough to move a vehicle, then fast enough and cheap enough to stabilise a grid.
Interconnection turned separate power stations into one synchronised machine spanning a country, buying shared reserve and merit order dispatch at the price of propagating faults.