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The North American national grid does not make the electricity. The grid is a distribution system that transports power throughout the system to homes that are connected to it. The power for the grid is produced elsewhere at generating stations that feed into the grid.
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The national grid is a means of distributing electricity, there is no need for a dynamo (which produces electricity) in the national grid. However, dynamos (generators) are needed in the power stations.
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The power grid, some may have a back-up generator for power outages.
I don't think it does. The purpose of a national grid is to transfer the electrical energy from one place to another, not to generate it. Any power station that generates electricity would not be considered part of a national grid.
The power plant generates electric power that is connected to a grid network of wires usually on overhead pylons that connect up all the generators in that grid system. Many countries have one grid connecting up the whole country. The good thing about the grid is that all the generators contribute power and all the users draw power out, and if one generator has a fault and drops out the users should not notice it.
The electric power system or power grid are very important in maintaining the electricity for the country. Grids are divided geographically. Power issues can manifest in the grid resulting in brown-outs and black-outs.
Sell some of your wind power to the electricity grid.
In general, the power grid is the complex structure of electrical generation facilities and distribution networks. Connecting renewable power sources, be they wind, solar or what have you, involves using the renewable source to, by some means, generate electricity. And then that electricity is put on the power grid in the same manner as any electrical power is put on the grid when it is generated by nuclear, coal or oil fired steam plants or anything else.
A transformer changes the electricity from one voltage to another, which allows a high voltage power line to be converted down to a voltage suitable for home usage.
A solar panel is a flat, thin device that uses a compound of silicon to generate electricity. A power grid is a huge interconnection of electrical wires supplying electricity to homes, cities, and states.