Solar-Rich California Hits 95% Renewable Energy On a Recent Day Across 80 Percent of the State
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For approximately four seconds on April 29, California got 95% of its power from renewable energy with the Golden State using about 90% renewables in the afternoon hours during a period of warm, cloudless weather.
While caveats such as not including Sacramento or Los Angeles in the percentage dampens the milestone, it still means over 29 million people were contributing virtually nothing towards climate change as far as their electricity needs were concerned. California follows another major population center, South Australia, which recently fulfilled 100% demand with renewables.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
California energy and grid officials have taken measures to avoid a repeat of the pair of rolling blackouts that affected the state in August 2020. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Will California’s grid hold up this summer? Energy officials guardedly optimistic
It’s a summer rerun nobody in California wants to see: A repeat of the last August’s two straight days of rolling blackouts.
And while hot weather may exacerbate a strained electric grid in the coming months, officials with the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission and the California Independent System Operator are guardedly optimistic there will be no power interruptions this time around.
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It’s a summer rerun nobody in California wants to see: A repeat of last August’s two straight days of rolling blackouts.
And while hot weather may exacerbate a strained electric grid in the coming months, officials with the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission and the California Independent System Operator are guardedly optimistic there will be no power interruptions this time around.
For one thing, the system operator that manages the electric grid for about 80 percent of the state and the utilities commission estimate there will be 3,000 to 4,000 megawatts of additional power at the ready this summer, compared to 2020. That’s for a system that approaches 50,000 megawatts of capacity at its peak.
May 5 The managers of California's electricity system can't promise they'll be able to keep the lights on this summer. Still reeling from two nights of rolling blackouts during last August's heatwave, state officials say they've fortified the power grid against more outages but acknowledge that another extraordinary surge in temperatures could spell trouble. "We have some guarded optimism that .