Random regular 60Hz transformer you could find in home appliances could easily work at 50Hz and vice versa. But grid transformers are beasts where everything squeezed down for maximum efficiency.
Lower frequency need larger core and more turns in windings to have same efficiency and work without saturation. Grid transformer designed for 60Hz could easily saturate its core at 50Hz running on specified maximum power with unpleasant consequences. Less turns than needed (basically lower inductance) add more heat too.
If the US is installing smaller Gas Powered Generators in Ukraine to overcome blackouts would this newer system be 50hz or 60hz?
For local autonomous use it does not matter at all. Rare modern tech depends on grid frequency. As long as you provide voltage in range 200-240V, everything will be OK, even @100Hz.
Problems (and huge ones) will appear when you will end up with inevitable idea to connect this generators to the common country-wide grid.
Theoretically, you could use AC-DC-AC grid-connected converter to match grid and be able to properly send excess power to the grid, but this things are expensive, full of electronics and cant scale to the kilovolts and megawatts.
Random regular 60Hz transformer you could find in home appliances could easily work at 50Hz and vice versa. But grid transformers are beasts where everything squeezed down for maximum efficiency.
Lower frequency need larger core and more turns in windings to have same efficiency and work without saturation. Grid transformer designed for 60Hz could easily saturate its core at 50Hz running on specified maximum power with unpleasant consequences. Less turns than needed (basically lower inductance) add more heat too.
For local autonomous use it does not matter at all. Rare modern tech depends on grid frequency. As long as you provide voltage in range 200-240V, everything will be OK, even @100Hz.
Problems (and huge ones) will appear when you will end up with inevitable idea to connect this generators to the common country-wide grid.
Theoretically, you could use AC-DC-AC grid-connected converter to match grid and be able to properly send excess power to the grid, but this things are expensive, full of electronics and cant scale to the kilovolts and megawatts.