California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand with Renewables Over a Record 30 days

[Think. Again.]

Michelle Lewis Apr 15 2024 - 10:29 am PT
Full Article: https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/


In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 30 of the past 38 days.

Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z. Jacobson has been tracking California’s renewables performance, and he shares his findings on Twitter (X) when the state breaks records. Yesterday he posted:

Link to tweet

At the two-week record mark, Ian Magruder at Rewiring America made this great point on LinkedIn:

"And what makes it even better is that California has the largest grid-connected battery storage facility in the world (came online in January …), meaning those batteries were filling up with excess energy from the sun all afternoon today and are now deploying as we speak to offset a good chunk of the methane gas generation that California still uses overnight."

Full Article: https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/