Renewable energy powered 100% of CA needs for 25 of the last 32 days

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mattl

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Solar, wind and hydro met California's power demands for most of last month. Combined with battery it met the massive needs. Got to say I'm impressed.

 

 

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This data comes via Mark Z. Jacobson, a Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering. Jacobson has been updating his X (formerly known as Twitter) page each time the state reaches a record, which has been practically every day over the past month.

 

While California has hit 100% renewable energy before, for brief moments on exceptionally sunny days, this is the first time the state has sustained that success over an extended period.

 

Jacobson, for his part, is taking a victory lap. "This is getting so easy, it's almost boring," he wrote on LinkedIn.

 

 

"It's wild that this isn't getting more news coverage," Ian Magruder of Rewiring America wrote, responding to Jacobson's post. "This has never happened before in history. Yes, California has briefly hit this milestone before on a few very sunny days since 2022. But never so consistently over a two week stretch."

 

California's milestone is a big deal — in order to curb the massive amount of air pollution and planet-overheating gases produced by dirty energy sources such as gas and oil, we must replace those sources with clean, renewable sources such as solar and wind. 

 

 

 

Hope this helps with the high energy costs in CA since all these have a high upfront cost but negligible operating cost unlike fueled power generation.

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It's been quite cool and pleasant out here in Palm Springs---it touched 90 a couple days last week, and is supposed to hit 90 tomorrow for a several day stretch. Nowhere near 100 yet which is unusual. We are heading back to MI tomorrow not having used the air conditioning once (also unusual).
 
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