跟读练习: Understanding the Organization Working in Transmission - 通过视频学习英语口语
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So with transmission, there are several ownership types.
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So if you are a developer developing projects for connection to transmission,
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you may be dealing with one or several of these different types of ownership structures.
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And this includes investor-owned utilities.
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They sell stocks, so they're publicly owned.
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Then there are government agencies, such as the U.S government and municipalities.
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And then there are cooperative generation transmission organizations.
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And these co-ops are actually owned by the members that they serve.
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And one of the primary purposes of transmission,
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and this was the intent ever since the start of the industry back before 1900,
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was to connect large generating sources to the load centers where the load is concentrated,
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say, in the middle of cities.
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of utmost importance is the safety and reliability.
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Keep the lights on for abnormal conditions, and abnormal conditions happen all the time on transmission.
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You know, you get short circuit faults due to lightning or, you know, tree contact or other reasons.
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There are a lot of different causes of abnormal condition on transmission,
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but the transmission providers have to ensure that the system stays reliable.
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And when they're connecting new generation to the system, what this entails is a lot of different studies
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and analysis to make sure that the new generation isn't going to mess up the reliability of that existing transmission system.
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Now, there are other types of organizations in the transmission industry besides the transmission owners that we just mentioned.
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And the two types of organizations you'll hear a lot about are ISOs and RTOs.
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And if you are connecting new generation to a transmission,
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you very well may run into the ISOs and RTOs because they're the ones that actually run the queues.
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And for the most part,
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they do the studies or they work with the transmission owners or consultants in order to do the interconnection studies.
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But ISOs and RTOs, for the most part, they're the same for our purposes with very minor differences.
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And there are seven of them in the U.S as you see here, plus there's two more in Canada.
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And there are multiple purposes of these ISOs, RTOs, but one of the biggest ones is
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when it comes to interconnection is providing what they call non-discriminatory access to the electric grid,
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meaning that any generator or load who wants to access the grid can do
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so as long as they meet certain qualifications or certain requirements,
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and in many cases, if they help pay for system upgrades.
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Some of the other purposes of ISO's RTOs include the grid operation, the monitoring, the management in the region that they serve.
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They're in charge of generation dispatch to keep the generation supply and demand in balance,
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and they also do a regional planning and reliability modeling and planning.
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So they do quite a bit.
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语境中的语法与表达
- “...you may be dealing with one or several of these different types of ownership structures” 使用了情态动词+进行时的结构，表达“可能正在处理”的含义，适合描述当前或未来的工作场景。
- “meaning that any generator or load who wants to access the grid can do so as long as they meet certain qualifications” 中，“meaning that”用于解释说明，“as long as”引导条件状语从句，是口语中常用的逻辑连接方式。
- “They're in charge of generation dispatch to keep the generation supply and demand in balance” 里，“in charge of”和“to keep...in balance”简洁表达职责与目的，可用于工作描述或任务说明。
常见发音陷阱
视频中的专业词汇易导致发音错误，如“transmission”（传输）的重音在第二个音节，而非第一个；“cooperative”（合作社）的“co-”部分应发/kəʊ/，避免读成/kɒ/。此外，“non-discriminatory”（非歧视性的）音节较多，需注意连读和弱读，可通过提高英语发音训练逐步掌握。建议结合视频进行看YouTube学英语的跟读练习，重点模仿这些单词的发音。
什么是跟读法？
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