California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
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Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#2That sounds incredibly efficient.
Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#3> The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone
Nice...but "up to 10" < 24, and 98 < 116, and "how easy was the first 1/4?" is generally a crap indicator of how easily a job can be finished.
Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#4"As a result of the increase in WWS supply and decrease in demand from 2019 to 2024, the daily-average gap between WWS supply and demand decreased gradually during that period. This culminated March 7 to June 30, 2024, when the 24-h average WWS supply reached 61.3 % of demand, versus 56.1 % of demand during the same period in 2023."
Also "peaked at 83.2 % of daily demand on May 25."
Note that demand in 2023 was 533.6 Gwh/day and went down to 529.1.
"between June 2023 and June 2024, nameplate capacities of utility solar, wind, and batteries increased by ∼18%, ∼4%, and 73.3%, respectively"
Cost and details of those capacity increases isn't mentioned but it seems that the average 31.7% increase in capacity only yielded a 5.2pp increase (mostly from the batteries which appear to handle 4 hours of load).
The study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014812...
Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#5My electric rates more than doubled. No doubt for different reasons, including previously shelved infrastructure improvements such as underground lines.
For whatever reason, it hurts like hell.
Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#6Real subheadline says:
> The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours
Does the study clarify? "Up to” could mean almost anything, and could be rewritten ”no more than"
Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#7My electric rates more than doubled. No doubt for different reasons, including previously shelved infrastructure improvements such as underground lines. For whatever reason, it hurts like hell.
Yeah, also the article says "The California Public Utilities Commission, for instance, authorized its three largest utilities to collect $27 billion in wildfire prevention and insurance costs from ratepayers between 2019 and 2023."
Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#8My electric rates more than doubled. No doubt for different reasons, including previously shelved infrastructure improvements such as underground lines. For whatever reason, it hurts like hell.
Is the retail electric rate really almost $0.30? Here in Maryland, it’s half that, and charging my EV is like $0.11. At $0.30, having an EV wouldn’t be any cheaper than buying gas!
Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#9electric bills for average residential customers in this PG&E area have increased five times in one year. The average residential bill has increased 56% in three years. This is after a state-backed replacement of senior management after the court losses.
source: local news reporter Kevin Truong
Re: California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
#10My electric rates more than doubled. No doubt for different reasons, including previously shelved infrastructure improvements such as underground lines. For whatever reason, it hurts like hell.
Is the retail electric rate really almost $0.30? Here in Maryland, it’s half that, and charging my EV is like $0.11. At $0.30, having an EV wouldn’t be any cheaper than buying gas!
Eventually oil will run out and the only vehicles driving around will be electric. It’s not about cost, it’s about sustainability.