intertie
- noun
- /ˈɪntərˌtaɪ/
- Specialized
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interconexión
- The troubleshooter put his charts away as the truck nosed out of the woods onto the long, mostly open slope leading to the intertie Potomac crossing point.
- utility intertie
- intertie systems
Examples
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BPA's Intertie pricing and access policies over the years have met with bitter opposition from regional and nonregional electricity producers and consumers.
Academic text (1992) -
So when the PennMarVa Intertie's 500-kV line went down, it created havoc in seconds.
Fiction book (1996) -
The BPA currently controls about 80 percent of the Pacific Intertie extending from the Northwest to California.
Academic text (1992) -
Knocking down the two intertie transmission towers merely created a one-time inconvenience for several hundred thousand people.
Fiction book (1996) -
Atwater shook his head as he used a penlight to scan the intertie map.
Fiction book (1996) -
The intertie also made it possible for member utilities to swap electricity back and forth to meet unexpected demand or to make up for out-of-commission generating plants.
Fiction book (1996) -
The Intertie makes up nearly 80 percent of this region's high-voltage transmission, with over 14,700 circuit miles of lines and almost 400 substations.
Academic text (1992) -
California utilities and regulators for years had protested against BPA's Intertie access policy as both anticompetitive and discriminatory.
Academic text (1992) -
Through its extensive transmission network (Intertie), the PBA markets power to a region encompassing the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, plus portions of neighboring states.
Academic text (1992) -
The new intertie will link the eastern and western power grids, allowing electricity to flow more freely.
Synonyms
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3.3
A part that joins parts so power, signals, or water can pass
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4.4
A group of things linked so they work together and change each other
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6.1
A connection between things or systems that makes them affect each other
A link that lets different systems share information
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intertie comes from the parts inter- 'between' and tie 'to tie' or 'connect'. Imagine a strong tie between two regions' power lines that lets electricity flow from one to the other, and that's why an intertie is a connection linking power systems so they can share electricity.