California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
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Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
#2Another discussion from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045252 (77 comments).
Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
#3” California will entirely be on renewables and battery storage 24/7 by 2035.
California passed a law that commits to achieving 100% net zero electricity by 2045. Will it beat that goal by a decade? We hope so. It’s going to be exciting to watch.”
Remarkable, especially considering California’s population is 39 million people.
Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
#4for 0.25-6 h per day
That's nice and all, but 15 minutes is a much lesser achievement than the headline implies.
Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
#5For a few minutes at low demand time. These kinds of over-grand claims are seriously harmful to the cause of promoting renewables because it makes it seem like we’re almost there and can stop caring. Just look at the excellent, accurate, and up-to-the-hour charts put out by the electricity market itself and you will see where and when the challenges we face still are.
Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
#6for 0.25-6 h per day That's nice and all, but 15 minutes is a much lesser achievement than the headline implies.
Same thought. It’s a bit of a bait and switch as the title implied to me a major milestone. But it’s not and the real milestone of renewables providing power continuously day and night remains.
Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
#7For a few minutes at low demand time. These kinds of over-grand claims are seriously harmful to the cause of promoting renewables because it makes it seem like we’re almost there and can stop caring. Just look at the excellent, accurate, and up-to-the-hour charts put out by the electricity market itself and you will see where and when the challenges we face still are. https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.…
The most striking thing is how incredibly flat the line for nuclear is.
Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
#8for 0.25-6 h per day That's nice and all, but 15 minutes is a much lesser achievement than the headline implies.
Same thought. It’s a bit of a bait and switch as the title implied to me a major milestone. But it’s not and the real milestone of renewables providing power continuously day and night remains.
running solar at night would be a real achievement!
Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
#9Spain as a whole 45 million country with diverse geography and scattered population is producing 75 percent of its electricity from renewables and gas and carbon have been down to almost technical zero.
It's rained a lot over the last month's and water reservoirs are used as battery.
I made a website to track this: https://energy.antizone.online
During the day, a huge chunk of the produced energy is sold to other countries, that's why I claim that 70% of its electricity is from renewables, even though the production share only accounts for 66%.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same thought. It’s a bit of a bait and switch as the title implied to me a major milestone. But it’s not and the real milestone of renewables providing power continuously day and night remains.
running solar at night would be a real achievement!
Haha indeed. I edited my comment to be a bit more clear. Though I think solar furnaces do work at night.