English translation of "projet de dorsale médiane" - "backbone grid project"

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182 months ago

WILHELMINA TWENEBOA-KODUA asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	projet de dorsale médiane
Context:	installation of power plant units

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182 months ago

Robert Tucker wrote:

backbone grid project

My comment:

Previous blackouts demonstrate that the safe and stable operation of backbone-grid plays a key role in preventing large-scale blackouts caused by cascading failures.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5666532

‧ there is an ongoing need for the backbone grid from Roxburgh to Otahuhu and its capacity will need to increase over time
www.transpower.co.nz/f4618,45407217/enduring-grid.pdf

A $75 billion investment in a high- voltage ``backbone'' for the U.S. electric grid...
If a backbone grid allowed the average plant to be fully used an average of 15 hours a day...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&refer=environment&sid=abwzvUE0fQfE

Google: "backbone grid"

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