Speaking of the electric power industry, many people may not know how powerful Hua Xia's electric power was in the original history. Many people may still be stuck in the era when the United States was the world's number one electric power transmission.
However, this point had been torn to pieces by the recent cold wave. The United States' electric power was indeed the world's number one in history. After all, the world's first AC transmission network was in the United States. Until the millennium, the United States' electric power technology was still the world's number one.
However, there was one thing that many people did not know. In fact, the United States' electric power technology was still based on the 70's in the 2000's.
The United States completed the large-scale construction of the national electric power network in the 70's of the 20th century. Then, in the eyes of the United States, the only thing left to do was to maintain the electric power network. Therefore, many electric power technology research and development were shelved. Even if there were, they were new energy generation technologies such as nuclear power plants and solar power plants. As for electric power transmission technology, the United States had not made any progress in 30 years.
Why did the United States' electric power network in Texas perform so badly in this cold wave? The first reason was that the United States' electric power system was quite old.
Most of the electric power system was built in the 70's. After 50 years, the problems encountered during this period were only fixed. There had never been a systematic replacement of the lines, nor large-scale maintenance of the infrastructure. This led to the electric power transmission technology still being based on the 70's. Even if there were more advanced UHV transmission technology now, it could not be used because the electric power network could not support it at all.
Originally, the network could still be used after some repairs. However, after the super cold wave, the entire power network collapsed instantly. Many equipment directly collapsed … This was not something that could be fixed in one or two days. The governor of Texas set a time limit of 60 days … This was the time for the relevant electric power company to submit the rectification report. As for when it would be completely repaired, it was really unknown.
Of course, most of the local cities and factories should be able to restore electricity within a month. However, there would be some people in remote areas who might not be able to restore electricity even after 12 years.
Because for the capitalists, these users would only pay tens of thousands of USD for electricity each year, but it would cost tens of millions of USD to repair the electricity network. This was definitely not a good deal. Free capitalists would never do such a stupid thing.
What? You're asking why people in these remote areas could get electricity in the 1970s?
That was because in the 1970s, the United States' National Grid was still a state-owned enterprise. In the 1970s, the United States government completely privatized the National Grid and sold these companies to private individuals to operate. They claimed that market-based competition would provide the best service.
Now that all the power companies had become private companies, they could do things like not maintaining the power grid on a large scale for 50 years, and the price of electricity would increase by 100 times in a day. You could not expect them to take the initiative to repair the power grid in remote areas.
As for Hua Xia, the power grid was already terrible before 2008. It was very normal to have two or three power outages every month. At that time, one-third of the rural households did not have electricity, and every household that had electricity had to buy a voltage regulator. First, they had to connect the household line to the voltage regulator, and then through the voltage regulator, they had to connect the electricity to the whole house.
The reason for this was that the voltage in the rural areas was very unstable at that time. Sometimes the voltage was as high as ten times normal. If there was no voltage regulator, it was very normal to change dozens of light bulbs and five or six TVs in a month. These electrical appliances would be burned out by the sudden surge in voltage.
After 2008, the domestic power transmission technology became more and more powerful. Later, there was a village operation. Hua Xia became the first country in the world to allow all households, even the most remote village, to have electricity.
Looking at the whole world, this was a unique achievement. After all, in the eyes of the public, the United States, 18% of the areas and population did not have electricity.
However, these families usually bought generators. They usually generated electricity for their own use. It was just that the network was very troublesome and could not be satisfied.
This was the real reason why Musk started the Star Chain Project. Did you really think that the Star Chain Project was to compete with the telecommunications companies for users?
What a joke. The Star Chain Project's ten times the internet cost was not something that normal people would consider. The real target of the Star Chain Project was actually the ships at sea and the United States' households that did not have internet access. These people were the real users of the Star Chain Project. Only they would buy internet service at ten times the price.
Anyway, China's electric power technology was definitely at the forefront of the world in 2020. There were no competitors.
To give a specific example, now all the electric power majors in the world had added Chinese to their curriculum. Some units even collectively organized technicians to learn Chinese.
This was because the world's most advanced equipment was manufactured by Hua Xia. The operating systems, operating manuals, and various professional works were all written in Chinese. If you did not learn Chinese, you would not even understand how to use the equipment, let alone understand the technology inside.
Ten years ago, no one would have thought that Hua Xia's first cultural export and forced everyone in the industry to learn Chinese was from the electric power industry. This was too sci-fi!
But in this life, under the promotion of Boss Jia, the electric power industry had made rapid progress. In order to cope with the Daqian's electric power era, Hua Xia's electric power industry had started to transform in advance. It was moving forward and developing towards the goal of being the world's number one. That was why the electric power industry was the industry that benefited the most from this revolution.
Of course, while there were benefits, there were also serious losses. Among them, the automobile manufacturers in Hua Xia had the most intense reaction. The direct result of Shang Tang's hot sales was the collapse of the traditional automobile manufacturers' market.
Shang Tang's sales were built on the corpses of traditional gasoline vehicles. In 2001, the total sales of gasoline vehicles had dropped by 20% compared to 2000. This was unbelievable in Hua Xia, where the sales of automobiles were increasing every year. Everyone in the automobile industry felt the aura of extinction.
So, in early 2002, these automobile manufacturers gathered in Shanghai and held an emergency meeting at the Hua Xia Automobile Industry Development Forum!
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
