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An interactive tutorial on alternate power-flow solutions, built on a two-bus system small enough to solve by hand. Click any starting point on the convergen...

The grid moves electricity from where it is made to where it is used, in real time. A tour of the five parts that make that work.

An analogy for how modern power grids actually work.

You flip a switch. The light comes on. Somewhere, roughly a tenth of a second earlier, a generator a hundred miles away pushed a little harder to make that p...

Imagine you are driving home during rush hour. Suddenly, the main highway bridge in your city is closed. Everyone diverts to the side roads. At first, it see...