Western Interconnection

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The Western Interconnection is a major synchronized electric power grid that spans much of western North America, linking utilities and power plants across multiple U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and parts of Mexico.

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf power transmission network
synchronized electric power grid
acronym WECC region
connects electric utilities
load centers
power plants
continent North America
country Canada
Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
gridType alternating current grid
hasPart bulk power transmission system
distribution utilities
electric power plants
hasReliabilityStandards NERC reliability standards
includesResourceType coal-fired generation
hydroelectric generation
natural gas-fired generation
renewable energy resources
solar power
thermal generation
wind power
interconnectedVia high-voltage direct current ties
interconnectionFrequency 60 Hz
isOneOf major North American power interconnections
three main AC interconnections in the contiguous United States
isPartOf North American power transmission grid
surface form: North American bulk power system
isSeparatedFrom Eastern Interconnection
Texas Interconnection
operatingCharacteristic coordinated dispatch
inter-utility power transfers
wide-area frequency control
purpose bulk power system reliability
electricity supply to consumers
long-distance power transmission
regionServed Northern Mexico
Western Canada
western United States
surface form: Western United States
regulatoryBody Western Electricity Coordinating Council
spansPartOf Canada
Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
standardBody North American Electric Reliability Corporation
supports retail electricity service
wholesale electricity markets
synchronizationStatus synchronously operated
voltageLevel high-voltage transmission

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Western Interconnection
Description of subject: The Western Interconnection is a major synchronized electric power grid that spans much of western North America, linking utilities and power plants across multiple U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and parts of Mexico.

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Right Powerhouse gridConnection Western Interconnection
Chief Joseph Dam generatesPowerFor Western Interconnection
this entity surface form: Pacific Northwest grid
Eastern Interconnection coexistsWith Western Interconnection
Eastern Interconnection coexistsWith Western Interconnection
this entity surface form: Quebec Interconnection
Eastern Interconnection synchronizationBoundary Western Interconnection
Seattle City Light gridConnection Western Interconnection
Loving hasElectricPowerGrid Western Interconnection
this entity surface form: U.S. Western Interconnection
Bonneville Power Administration gridInterconnection Western Interconnection
this entity surface form: Western Interconnection power grid
California electrical grid partOfInterconnection Western Interconnection
PacifiCorp gridConnection Western Interconnection
NV Energy gridConnection Western Interconnection
this entity surface form: Western Interconnection power grid
Portland General Electric gridConnection Western Interconnection