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I suppose the capacity of that infrastructure was much lower than the requirements nowadays, and labour was dramatically cheaper back then.


No, there was simply much less red tape.


And early in electrification the whole local grid going down for awhile because who knows why wasn't a major issue, it was almost expected.

Some towns didn't even have power until near nightfall as a planned runtime; why bother with power during the day?

Now we're used to 100% always-available power at all times, and the demands on it are growing. Things like power walls may become nearly free as the grid maintainers try to flatten demand so they can run the grid closer to capacity for longer each day.




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