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Quite frankly, you might consider whether the idea of "the grid" is even a good idea in todays world. Perhaps smaller, more independent, resilient grids that power a single city or single neighborhoods in a city are what is needed so that if one major grid outage happens, it doesn't knock absolutely everybody off at once. The people who do grid tie solar that when the grid goes out kills their solar as well are crazy. They could put in a transfer switch that senses loss of the grid and stops transmitting the power back upstream and use it themselves.
This is quite literally the opposite of what we need. Not only do we need more interconnection capacity to be able to locate renewables where they will be most effective but interconnection capacity is going to be crucial with the increased frequency of severe weather events as other grid regions will be able to support others under stress.
MYOP (Make Your Own Power) everyone should be able to generate enough power on their own to cover the buildings needs. If the max a house uses per day at worst is 30kw that house should produce 30kw to use.
No way a house 30kW at any point
Tell that to my power bill to keep the house 80 during summer...