According to SFGate (SF Chronicle Newspaper’s sister online site), California grid sets record, with 67% of power from renewables
I am very proud of my state for aggressively pursuing the fight to switch off of fossil fuels and move to renewables.
From the article:
Early Saturday afternoon, renewable sources produced a record 67.2 percent of the electricity on the portion of the state’s power grid controlled by the California Independent System Operator. That figure does not include large hydropower facilities, which added another 13.5 percent. Based in Folsom, the ISO runs 80 percent of the state’s grid.
The article indicates that both solar and wind are having record setting days this year and that the solar production records are “falling like dominoes”. Much of the credit to the renewable usage is due to lots of solar capacity coming online.
There was also good news about those ISO numbers:
More than half of the renewable energy flowing across the grid at that moment on Saturday came from large solar facilities and wind farms. The ISO’s numbers do not even account for electricity from rooftop solar arrays.
California is showing the way to the rest of the country that you can make the switch to renewables even in the country’s largest state and not negatively impact the economy (in fact, just the opposite). In these dire days of the Trump administration, it is going to take strong leadership and guidance from our progressive states like California and New York to remain as counter-arguments to the nonsense now spewing from Washington, D.C.