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Apparently not a problem to do today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continen...

That's not a very large area, to be fair. That's about the size of half of the United States, in distance/spread. Europe isn't a continent in the traditional sense, it's a region, and not a huge one.

This might counter the grandparent poster if Asia was on the same synchronous grid, but it's not.

I guess there's two ways of looking at it. The distances spanned by the extreme points net or how dense it is. Not that I have the knowledge to relate any of that to real world use cases or consequences.

Here's the map including all larger powerlines

https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/

This is a better example IMO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPS/UPS

It spans 8 timezones.

Europe is just larger in capacity, not breadth.

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