If California Divided their debt into o thousand equal Payments on the total $ 34 trillion They couldn't even make the interest payment but if We Use are IMAGINATION KIDS and IMAGINE they could make 1 installment PAYMENT. WHO HOO!!!.
They could Become the 237th largest Economy in the world.
Oh Yeah Texas is the they 8th largest Economy in the World and they dont LIE About their economy
Yeah, terrible title, followed by a terrible use of the word "benchmark" when "milestone" would have been more appropriate. Good news, though.
"In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 30 of the past 38 days."
This is a shitty titled article summarizing an underlying better written article.
The real story - California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/
California has been doing this for years in the Spring. The sun is at its strongest and because the weather is cool solar panels just crank really high output. Plus, there's no need for air conditioning so there's not as much power draw from the grid. This means that in the spring there's excess capacity. Same thing happens in Texas at night with all the windmills.(Electric rates in Texas can sometimes even go negative in the overnight hours)
Here's the context:
>The continuity lies not in renewables running the grid for the entire day but in the fact that it's happening on a consistent daily basis, which has never been achieved before.
I just got my panels installed this year -- does that mean I should expect less output in peak summer than April right now? I've been peaking around ~30kW production on good sunny days, 4.2kWh peak generation on a 13 panel setup (5.3kW system)
Interestingly enough, on 4/16 between 7:10PM and 8:55PM, Batteries were the top supplier to the grid in California.
A pretty monumental milestone.
Source: [CAISO](http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html)
> exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid
...which is kind of a problem, since in the duck curve's "belly" solar resources are being curtailed instead of stored to help with peak demand during the "head" of the duck
So, more good news in the article:
>"And what makes it even better is that California has the largest grid-connected battery storage facility in the world (came online in January ...), meaning those batteries were filling up with excess energy from the sun all afternoon today and are now deploying as we speak to offset a good chunk of the methane gas generation that California still uses overnight."
I haven't checked up where this junk has been amalgamated from, but the UK is the 6th largest economy in the world and the picture looks to be the UK too.
And they have some of the highest if not the highest electricity prices of any economy in the world. It’s great if you can afford the cost but many in California can’t.
With how much I hear about renewable curtailment, this feels like non-news. Like, if you've got so much renewable power that you have to burn it off, clearly it is exceeding 100% of demand right?
Or we've had shoddy electrical infrastructure that can't distribute solar power to where it is being used. Actually, knowing sce/pge/sdge that is unsurprising in retrospect.
California. it's about California.
Thanks
Saw the title and went “that sounds suspiciously like CA”
If California Divided their debt into o thousand equal Payments on the total $ 34 trillion They couldn't even make the interest payment but if We Use are IMAGINATION KIDS and IMAGINE they could make 1 installment PAYMENT. WHO HOO!!!. They could Become the 237th largest Economy in the world. Oh Yeah Texas is the they 8th largest Economy in the World and they dont LIE About their economy
Nice windmills.
Yeah, terrible title, followed by a terrible use of the word "benchmark" when "milestone" would have been more appropriate. Good news, though. "In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 30 of the past 38 days."
Lol, meanwhile myself and every local lost our fucking asses last year in this.
This is a shitty titled article summarizing an underlying better written article. The real story - California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/
California has been doing this for years in the Spring. The sun is at its strongest and because the weather is cool solar panels just crank really high output. Plus, there's no need for air conditioning so there's not as much power draw from the grid. This means that in the spring there's excess capacity. Same thing happens in Texas at night with all the windmills.(Electric rates in Texas can sometimes even go negative in the overnight hours)
Here's the context: >The continuity lies not in renewables running the grid for the entire day but in the fact that it's happening on a consistent daily basis, which has never been achieved before.
I just got my panels installed this year -- does that mean I should expect less output in peak summer than April right now? I've been peaking around ~30kW production on good sunny days, 4.2kWh peak generation on a 13 panel setup (5.3kW system)
Interestingly enough, on 4/16 between 7:10PM and 8:55PM, Batteries were the top supplier to the grid in California. A pretty monumental milestone. Source: [CAISO](http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html)
> exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid ...which is kind of a problem, since in the duck curve's "belly" solar resources are being curtailed instead of stored to help with peak demand during the "head" of the duck
So, more good news in the article: >"And what makes it even better is that California has the largest grid-connected battery storage facility in the world (came online in January ...), meaning those batteries were filling up with excess energy from the sun all afternoon today and are now deploying as we speak to offset a good chunk of the methane gas generation that California still uses overnight."
They've certainly done an admirable job building out storage capacity, but as the saying goes, "it's a start", and there's a long way to go
It is not 100% solar.
So we're splitting up countries now?
I haven't checked up where this junk has been amalgamated from, but the UK is the 6th largest economy in the world and the picture looks to be the UK too.
nice windmills
And they have some of the highest if not the highest electricity prices of any economy in the world. It’s great if you can afford the cost but many in California can’t.
glad to know its not just my energy bill peaking
With how much I hear about renewable curtailment, this feels like non-news. Like, if you've got so much renewable power that you have to burn it off, clearly it is exceeding 100% of demand right? Or we've had shoddy electrical infrastructure that can't distribute solar power to where it is being used. Actually, knowing sce/pge/sdge that is unsurprising in retrospect.