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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

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Hahahaha, okay. I'm in Texas now. I use a ridiculous amount of power to be honest mining in my single family home with A/C running all summer & heatpump during the winter. Care to explain? I've had more expensive bills in San Franciso, Alameda county just heating my home with way more temperate weather. I can provide actual data if you want. Outages? I've had more brown-outs & black-outs in California... the power sy…

Don't know how much it costs in California but probably it should cost much more in Texas to disincentivise you from wasting electricity.

Texas produces more than twice the amount of energy than any other state. While Texas leads in energy consumption, the state also has the largest amount of surplus energy produced after consumption.

Re: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days

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Honestly a big issue in my view is that we don't have more dynamic sinks . Let's overbuild a mix of renewables and nuclear, then use the excess power to do things like green hydrogen. Or maybe we will find other uses when electricity becomes too cheap to meter.

Doing that is part of the plan for the switch to renewables, and people are actively working on it. A friend of mine at Siemens energy for example is involved in such projects.

Yes, there are people working on that.

Unfortunately they aren't the people who drive energy policy in practice or who fund new generation (most of the time, at least).

From capitalist point of view, it's always easier to turn profit by market speculation[1], with providing gas turbine backup second.

[1] I work for considerably big wind power company building off shore wind turbines. Our main revenue source is market speculation :<

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