electricity - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. Maasai pastoralists have been displaced by projects providing this service located in Kenya’s Olkaria (-5[1])region. Husk, a company that provides “mini” methods (-5[1])of providing this service, (-5[1])left Tanzania over disputes with TANESCO. (-5[2])Morocco provides (-5[1])this service (-5[1])through complexes like one at Noor, (10[2])which uses a parabolic (10[1])trough collector (10[2]-5[2])as a (-5[1])“concentrated” (10[1]-5[1])facility (10[2])of its type. (10[4]-5[3])This (10[2])service is (-5[1])intended to be supplied (10[1])across Africa (10[1]-5[1])by the much-delayed (-5[1])Grand Inga (-5[2])infrastructure (10[1]-5[2])project (10[2]-5[4])in (10[1])DR Congo. (10[6]-5[5])In South Africa, Eskom’s failure (10[2])to fully (10[2]-5[1])provide (10[3]-5[1])this (10[1])service (10[10]-5[6])has led (10[1])to (10[1])loadshedding. (10[6]-5[2])For 10 (10[2])points, (10[2])what (10[1])service (10[2])may be conveyed (10[1])as (10[1])HVDC from photovoltaics (10[2])or (10[1])batteries? (10[2])■END■ (10[44]0[1])

ANSWER: electricity [accept power; accept energy; accept being connected to the electrical grid; accept being connected to an electrical minigrid; accept geothermal energy or geothermal power; accept solar energy or solar power; accept concentrated solar power; accept wind power or wind energy; accept hydroelectric power or hydroelectric energy; accept hydropower or water power; accept renewable energy or renewable power; accept nonrenewable energy or nonrenewable power; prompt on CSP; prompt on light by asking “what provided service is allowing that?”; prompt on heating water or heating salt by asking “in order to provide what service to consumers?”]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	25%	76.00
Southern California	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	71%	97.14
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	75%	0%	25%	77.67
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	22%	91.11
Florida	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	25%	97.00
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	100%	0%	60%	97.20
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	44%	103.11
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	89%	0%	22%	86.13
Midwest	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	33%	89.00
North	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	50%	97.00
Northeast	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	33%	99.75
Pacific	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	38%	88.88
South Central	Main	Y	6	100%	0%	17%	87.17
Southeast	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	33%	95.50
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	101.40

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida State A	20	-5
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	Columbia B	28	-5
Jas Wang	UCLA F	Claremont B	32	-5
Anton Akroush	Michigan State A	Ohio State A	38	-5
Andrew Stappenbeck	CWRU C	Pittsburgh	38	-5
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Sewanne	40	-5
Bolun Thompson	UCLA C	Claremont A	42	-5
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Ohio State B	48	10
Leonard Castine	Penn	Rutgers A	48	10
Ethen Sun	Toronto C	Brock A	52	10
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Rose-Hulman A	54	-5
Benjamin Allen	Central Oklahoma B	Nebraska B	54	10
Wesley Yu	British Columbia A	British Columbia B	54	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	Carleton B	54	-5
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Louisville B	56	-5
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Little Prince	57	10
Liam Markland	Alberta A	Arizona State B	57	-5
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	Iowa B	58	10
Cole Hammans	Nebraska A	Central Oklahoma A	58	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Archer Queen	61	10
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	Toronto B	61	-5
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	Illinois Champaign	61	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	USC A	61	-5
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Boston University B	61	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Johns Hopkins	61	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Binghamton A	61	-5
Nick Machin	UCLA A	UC Irvine	62	10
James Xiao	Toronto A	McMaster C	62	10
William Kiker	Dartmouth A	Brown B	64	-5
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Vanderbilt C	68	10
Luke Hasksins	Kansas State B	Tulsa A	70	-5
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	Ottawa A	70	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Chicago B	73	-5
James Haddix	Washington State	Alberta B	75	-5
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	Rutgers D	75	-5
Theodor Martin	WashU Grizzlers	Iowa A	76	-5
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	St. Thomas	76	-5
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	McGill B	76	10
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Boss Bandit	77	10
Sophia Madrazo	Purdue B	Purdue D	77	10
Mary Kate Vance	Louisville A	Michigan B	77	-5
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Southern Connecticut State University A	77	-5
Seth Allen	McMaster A	Toronto E	77	-5
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	South Carolina A	77	-5
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Arizona State A	78	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida A	80	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	WashU Grolars	80	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Macalester	80	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Amherst A	80	-5
Anya Srinivasan	Washington Atlantic	Washington Chinook	80	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	WVU B	80	10
James Mickel	Michigan State C	Louisville C	80	-5
Bryce Younger	Boise State	British Columbia C	80	-5
John Maupin	Chipola College	Clemson B	80	10
David Ropp	Duke A	Liberty A	80	-5
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Auburn A	80	-5
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	Washington Masu	85	10
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	George Mason B	85	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	87	-5
Wynn Alsko	Auburn C	Georgia Tech B	87	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	Ottawa C	87	10
Liam Henderson	McMaster B	Toronto I	88	10
Annika Larson	Claremont A	UCLA C	88	10
John Halsun	UConn A	Brandeis Beethoven	88	10
Taylor Smallacombe	VCU A	JMU A	88	-5
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Cornell A	89	10
Ritisha Dey	Stanford A	UCSC	90	-5
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto D	Waterloo B	90	10
Miles Phillips	Florida Tech B	UCF A	90	10
Jack Piros	Illinois Orange	Purdue A	90	10
Alex Smits	Wisconsin A	Minnesota	90	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	Brown A	90	10
Shreyansh Satapurthy	UCLA D	Claremont C	90	-5
Nathaniel Martin	Brandeis Bach	Tufts C	90	-5
Jake Markus	Dartmouth B	Williams C	90	10
Jackson McDonald	Alabama A	Tennessee B	90	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	WVU A	90	-5
Stella Broome	Virginia A	Liberty B	90	-5
Connor Kahn	NCSU A	UNC D	90	-5
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	NCSU A	90	10
Vedang Singhal	UNC C	UNC A	90	10
Caedmon Holland	Lehigh B	Rutgers B	90	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Tennessee Tech	92	10
Eli Young	Vassar A	Vassar B	93	10
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Wisconsin B	94	-5
Graham Dirks	Kansas State A	Nebraska C	94	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UCLA B	94	-5
Mai Höglund	Claremont B	UCLA F	94	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	Ohio State D	94	10
Nivedh Mudiam	Arizona State B	Alberta A	94	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	Maryland A	94	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	RIT A	94	10
Wyatt Johnson	CWRU B	Michigan A	96	10
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	JMU B	96	10
Ethan Altshul	Emory A	Mississippi State A	97	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt A	97	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Queen's A	98	10
Kyle Saelzler	Harding	Oklahoma	99	10
Benny Shtutman	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech E	99	10
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	Washington Coho	102	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Guelph A	103	10
Johnny Myers	Williams B	Dartmouth C	106	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	RIT B	106	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	William & Mary B	107	10
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	Chicago A	108	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Dartmouth A	108	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Stanford A	109	10
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Waterloo A	109	10
Lucas Hall	Waterloo C	Toronto F	109	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	Florida B	109	10
Tinashe Sandy	South Florida A	Florida Tech A	109	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Canada	109	10
Elizabeth Bowling	Indiana B	Illinois Urbana	109	10
Grace Early	Iowa A	WashU Grizzlers	109	10
Zach Majorowicz	St. Thomas	Michigan Tech	109	10
Noah Lang	Wisconsin B	Wisconsin C	109	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Boston College B	109	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Harvard	109	10
Jonathan Ho	Alberta B	Washington State	109	10
Mason Evans	Tulsa A	Kansas State B	109	10
Caleb Houston	Tulsa B	Rose State	109	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCSD A	109	10
Diego Monge	Claremont C	UCLA D	109	10
Yuv Magan	UCSD B	USC B	109	10
Chris Chang	USC A	UC Santa Barbara	109	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Ohio State C	109	10
Matthew Wozniak	Michigan B	Louisville A	109	10
Nathan Woolery	Louisville C	Michigan State C	109	10
Joshua Garner	Ohio State A	Michigan State A	109	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Tufts B	109	10
Devon Kumar	Tufts C	Brandeis Bach	109	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	MIT B	109	10
Rafael Gómez	Amherst B	Vermont B	109	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Boise State	109	10
Coy Mier	Auburn B	Vanderbilt B	109	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Clemson C	109	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	McMaster A	109	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	CWRU C	109	10
Chase Moss	WVU A	Michigan State D	109	10
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	Duke A	109	10
Abby Keith	Liberty B	Virginia A	109	10
Kevin Nolan	NCSU B	Tusculum A	109	10
Vivian Adolph	UNC B	William & Mary C	109	10
Erin Williams	JMU A	VCU A	109	10
Neal Tandon	Columbia B	Maryland C	109	0
Brayden Whitlow	George Mason C	Rutgers C	109	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Columbia A	109	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	109	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Montevallo	109	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	ESF	109	10
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	Binghamton C	109	10

Northern California

Main

100%

25%

76.00

Southern California

Main

100%

71%

97.14

Eastern Canada (1)

Main

75%

25%

77.67

Eastern Canada (2)

Main

100%

22%

91.11

Florida

Main

100%

25%

97.00

Great Lakes

Main

100%

60%

97.20

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

44%

103.11

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

89%

22%

86.13

Midwest

Main

100%

33%

89.00

North

Main

100%

50%

97.00

Northeast

Main

100%

33%

99.75

Pacific

Main

100%

38%

88.88

South Central

Main

100%

17%

87.17

Southeast

Main

100%

33%

95.50

Upstate NY

Main

100%

20%

101.40

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Matthew Andersen

Florida B

Florida State A

-5

Ben Spirtas

Maryland C

Columbia B

-5

Jas Wang

UCLA F

Claremont B

-5

Anton Akroush

Michigan State A

Ohio State A

-5

Andrew Stappenbeck

CWRU C

Pittsburgh

-5

Andrew Wilson

Montevallo

Sewanne

-5

Bolun Thompson

UCLA C

Claremont A

-5

Reed Sexton

Michigan C

Ohio State B

Leonard Castine

Penn

Rutgers A

Ethen Sun

Toronto C

Brock A

Brian Qian

Illinois Canada

Rose-Hulman A

-5

Benjamin Allen

Central Oklahoma B

Nebraska B

Wesley Yu

British Columbia A

British Columbia B

John Rootham

Ottawa D

Carleton B

-5

Miles Spieler

Ohio State C

Louisville B

-5

Suren Grigorian

Berkeley Mighty Miner

Berkeley Little Prince

Liam Markland

Alberta A

Arizona State B

-5

Sriram Koritala

Illinois Blue

Iowa B

Cole Hammans

Nebraska A

Central Oklahoma A

Danny Han

Stanford B

Berkeley Archer Queen

Susanna Liao

Waterloo A

Toronto B

-5

Anurag Shah

Indiana A

Illinois Champaign

Winston Zuo

UC Santa Barbara

USC A

-5

Sidarth Erat

MIT A

Boston University B

Nicholas Decker

George Mason A

Johns Hopkins

Gregory Stone

ESF

Binghamton A

-5

Nick Machin

UCLA A

UC Irvine

James Xiao

Toronto A

McMaster C

William Kiker

Dartmouth A

Brown B

-5

Ben Lanahan

Clemson A

Vanderbilt C

Luke Hasksins

Kansas State B

Tulsa A

-5

Charlie Ruff

McGill A

Ottawa A

Saswat Sasha Tripathi

Chicago A

Chicago B

-5

James Haddix

Washington State

Alberta B

-5

Mackenzie Tott

Columbia A

Rutgers D

-5

Theodor Martin

WashU Grizzlers

Iowa A

-5

Luke Sauer

Michigan Tech

St. Thomas

-5

Abhay Ariyapappillil

Ottawa B

McGill B

Hansen Jin

Berkeley Skeleton King

Berkeley Boss Bandit

Sophia Madrazo

Purdue B

Purdue D

Mary Kate Vance

Louisville A

Michigan B

-5

Dylan Tanouye

Tufts B

Southern Connecticut State University A

-5

Seth Allen

McMaster A

Toronto E

-5

Samarth Prajapati

Georgia Tech E

South Carolina A

-5

Aaron Bates

Washington Pink

Arizona State A

Yishak Kelkay

ERAU Daytona A

Florida A

Alex Dzurick

William Woods University A

WashU Grolars

James Horsley

Iowa State

Macalester

Owen Gibbs

Boston College B

Amherst A

-5

Anya Srinivasan

Washington Atlantic

Washington Chinook

Dirk Hay

Louisville D

WVU B

James Mickel

Michigan State C

Louisville C

-5

Bryce Younger

Boise State

British Columbia C

-5

John Maupin

Chipola College

Clemson B

David Ropp

Duke A

Liberty A

-5

Madeline Painter

Georgia Tech D

Auburn A

-5

George Matsumura

Washington Chum

Washington Masu

Vihaan Jim

Princeton

George Mason B

Arhith Dharaendra

Georgia Tech B

Auburn C

-5

Wynn Alsko

Auburn C

Georgia Tech B

Malcolm Meyn

McGill C

Ottawa C

Liam Henderson

McMaster B

Toronto I

Annika Larson

Claremont A

UCLA C

John Halsun

UConn A

Brandeis Beethoven

Taylor Smallacombe

VCU A

JMU A

-5

Aidan Keenan

Rochester

Cornell A

Ritisha Dey

Stanford A

UCSC

-5

Nathaniel Godfrey

Toronto D

Waterloo B

Miles Phillips

Florida Tech B

UCF A

Jack Piros

Illinois Orange

Purdue A

Alex Smits

Wisconsin A

Minnesota

Jaehyun Park

Boston University A

Brown A

Shreyansh Satapurthy

UCLA D

Claremont C

-5

Nathaniel Martin

Brandeis Bach

Tufts C

-5

Jake Markus

Dartmouth B

Williams C

Jackson McDonald

Alabama A

Tennessee B

Will Jones

Michigan State D

WVU A

-5

Stella Broome

Virginia A

Liberty B

-5

Connor Kahn

NCSU A

UNC D

-5

Jeffery Austin

UNC D

NCSU A

Vedang Singhal

UNC C

UNC A

Caedmon Holland

Lehigh B

Rutgers B

Moses Dong

Georgia Tech F

Tennessee Tech

Eli Young

Vassar A

Vassar B

Ben Stras

Wisconsin C

Wisconsin B

-5

Graham Dirks

Kansas State A

Nebraska C

Cliodora Selyuzhitsky

UCSD A

UCLA B

-5

Mai Höglund

Claremont B

UCLA F

Jack Rabaut

Michigan D

Ohio State D

Nivedh Mudiam

Arizona State B

Alberta A

Kelvin Ni

NYU A

Maryland A

Ben Gardberg

Cornell B

RIT A

Wyatt Johnson

CWRU B

Michigan A

Derek Aldridge

William & Mary A

JMU B

Ethan Altshul

Emory A

Mississippi State A

Emerson Patmore

Georgia Tech C

Vanderbilt A

Tobias Smerdon

Toronto G

Queen's A

Kyle Saelzler

Harding

Oklahoma

Benny Shtutman

South Carolina A

Georgia Tech E

Suyog Vibhuti

Washington Steelhead

Washington Coho

102

Sicheng Jiang

Toronto H

Guelph A

103

Johnny Myers

Williams B

Dartmouth C

106

Vincent Misterkiewicz

Cornell C

RIT B

106

Gabriel Dodds

Liberty C

William & Mary B

107

Tishe Sonuga

Chicago B

Chicago A

108

Jack Meyers

Brown B

Dartmouth A

108

Lorie Au-Yeung

UCSC

Stanford A

109

Stephen Ottewell

Toronto B

Waterloo A

109

Lucas Hall

Waterloo C

Toronto F

109

Juan Landaeta

Florida State A

Florida B

109

Tinashe Sandy

South Florida A

Florida Tech A

109

Austin Tran

Rose-Hulman A

Illinois Canada

109

Elizabeth Bowling

Indiana B

Illinois Urbana

109

Grace Early

Iowa A

WashU Grizzlers

109

Zach Majorowicz

St. Thomas

Michigan Tech

109

Noah Lang

Wisconsin B

Wisconsin C

109

Anthony Xu

Amherst A

Boston College B

109

Blake Johnson

Boston College A

Harvard

109

Jonathan Ho

Alberta B

Washington State

109

Mason Evans

Tulsa A

Kansas State B

109

Caleb Houston

Tulsa B

Rose State

109

Terrence Han

UCLA B

UCSD A

109

Diego Monge

Claremont C

UCLA D

109

Yuv Magan

UCSD B

USC B

109

Chris Chang

USC A

UC Santa Barbara

109

Brody Johnson

Louisville B

Ohio State C

109

Matthew Wozniak

Michigan B

Louisville A

109

Nathan Woolery

Louisville C

Michigan State C

109

Joshua Garner

Ohio State A

Michigan State A

109

Christopher Bradley

Southern Connecticut State University A

Tufts B

109

Devon Kumar

Tufts C

Brandeis Bach

109

Ben Mowery

Vermont A

MIT B

109

Rafael Gómez

Amherst B

Vermont B

109

Alan Zhang

British Columbia C

Boise State

109

Coy Mier

Auburn B

Vanderbilt B

109

Martin Brandenburg

Georgia A

Clemson C

109

Sean Gao

Toronto E

McMaster A

109

Zac Stapler

Pittsburgh

CWRU C

109

Chase Moss

WVU A

Michigan State D

109

Nathan Redford

Liberty A

Duke A

109

Abby Keith

Liberty B

Virginia A

109

Kevin Nolan

NCSU B

Tusculum A

109

Vivian Adolph

UNC B

William & Mary C

109

Erin Williams

JMU A

VCU A

109

Neal Tandon

Columbia B

Maryland C

109

Brayden Whitlow

George Mason C

Rutgers C

109

Alex Wong

Rutgers D

Columbia A

109

Doug Frederick

Auburn A

Georgia Tech D

109

Nelson Adams-Riley

Sewanne

Montevallo

109

Owen Linder

Binghamton A

ESF

109

Ariyan Miah

Binghamton B

Binghamton C

109