impractical and much more expensive to implement DC distri-
bution grids where AC distribution grids already exist. But DC
may increasingly become the solution of choice in new districts
or cities, where new communities are electrified for the first
time.
Even though Nikola Tesla championed AC and won the battle
of currents, the world is slowly moving towards DC installations
once again. Now is a time when HVDC transmission is coming
into play widely , which is somehow equivalent to Edison win-
ning the war of currents many years later.
Naveena Amandani Jayarathne
Final Year Undergraduate
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
References
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