power grid

English

Noun

power grid (plural power grids)

1. The infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region.
   • 2022 December 7, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time‎^[1]:

     Russian missiles have damaged or destroyed much of Ukraine’s power grid since the start of October, a concerted effort to make the winter as painful as possible for the civilian population.

   • 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:

     There have been several examples of space weather affecting power grids in the last few decades, notably blackouts caused by GICs [geomagnetically induced currents] in Canada in 1989 and Sweden in 2003.

Related terms

• national grid

Translations

the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region

• Belarusian: электрасе́тка f (eljektrasjétka)
• Catalan: xarxa elèctrica f
• Danish: elektricitetsforsyningsnet n, elforsyningsnet n, elnet n
• Dutch: elektriciteitsnet (nl) n
• Estonian: elektrivõrk, vooluvõrk
• Finnish: sähköverkko (fi)
• French: réseau électrique m
• German: Stromnetz (de) n
• Polish: sieć elektroenergetyczna f
• Portuguese: rede elétrica (pt) f
• Russian: электросе́ть (ru) f (elektrosétʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: електромрежа f

  Roman: elektromreža f

• Spanish: red eléctrica f
• Swedish: kraftnät (sv) n
• Ukrainian: електромере́жа f (elektromeréža)