Well - that didn't last long ! Yesterdays' @California_ISO record of 14,449 MW of solar was broken today. Demand was slightly higher so perhaps that meant less curtailment and therefor more solar generation.
Solar generation hit 14,761 MW at 13:25.
@maxk
California in October 2022 versus March 2023.
From being entrenched in a multi-year extreme drought to having one of the deepest snowpacks on planet Earth.
For the last 9 months, The Guardian analyzed projects from the biggest carbon offset provider in the world.
They found "94% of the credits had no benefit to the climate."
Some of the biggest corporations in the world are using these offsets to claim they are "carbon neutral."
Snowstorm synopsis. A strong NW jet will intensify a surface low late Tuesday into Wednesday AM. Not a typical weak inside slider low as pressure deepens to ~985 hPa on approach to N. Vancouver Island.
#ERCOT update. Tomorrow's peak expected to be ~71GW which would beat the *June* peak. High temps forecast to be 90+ virtually statewide for 2 weeks. Peak trouble could be Thurs/Fri next week (May 19/20) as we'll likely get close to our all time summer peak of 74.8GW. #txlege 1/
"Storage resources are expected to comprise the majority of new capacity needed to maintain reliability after dispatchable thermal resource retirements"- just read this in a CAISO filing to the CPUC. Projected need is 11.3 GW of batteries in the next three years.
Extreme weather affecting the operations of some generation facilities prompted the AESO to declare an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 2 at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. #ABElectricity