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When it's there, you can capture it and use it.

So the day ahead team takes all of these resources, the rain and the faucets, and then proposes a stack for the following day.

But of course, things happen.

The weather might not cooperate or a power plant might go offline.

And so the stack gets handed off to another team, called the real-time team, which watches how the actual day unfolds and makes adjustments on the fly.

There are two groups within the real-time team.

The first are the real-time operators, and they're working on something called the supply and trading floor.

They're actually buying and selling electricity with other neighboring utilities.

And then there's, yes, another team.

They're called the grid operations team.

So I'm curious, is there an actual control room where all of this balancing happens?

There absolutely is.

So take us inside.

What does the control room look like?

It's funny because I think I'm imagining something much more chaotic, almost like an open trading floor, you know, where it's like...

bring up the solar, call Utah, you know, just like a like a more out loud kind of situation.

But what you're describing is something much quieter and much more focused.

So that was the basic overview of how SRP works day to day and year to year.

It's complicated.

The whole grid is complicated.