Although I think the unit of the second chart is probably a typo, should be gigawatts not "gigawatthours".
Wow - gas generation in California Jan-May 2026 was down 60% from its level in the same period of 2024, due to solar, batteries, imports from hydro and wind plants. This was despite a 7% increase in power demand.
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
Oh, interesting. I admit because I was posting on Eurotime I used the more recognisable term, but Dan is right they are not quite the same region.
These batteries had started to lower the amount of curtailed solar electricity, though data I’ve seen this spring suggests the solar increase might have bumped it this year.
While all power plant limit their output, solar curtailment hurts a bit more because we need all of it we can get.
This curtailment is leading to a bad thing though, negative pricing. Negative pricing sucks because it represents that we can only generate so much daytime electricity- and thus limits how far solar can go.
Negative pricing is so rough, it is slowing the whole planet’s solar deployment volume.
I am a lot more positive about PV with biodiversity requirements than about agricultural PV. Either way there's going to need to be a mandate regarding continued management of the site, but for biodiversity it's usually less onerous.
Jenny Chase
Jenny Chase
This is amazing but the photo looks like she was promptly forcibly evicted.
(I assume the paywalled article explains that it's a photo of her being tagged some time earlier. Condor mugshot).
I am mainly motivated on climate by fear, but I do try to play to my lesser suit, curiosity.
Well thank fuck.
(What's also super obvious is the split: rural regions voted for this nasty, economically suicidal bill. Urban regions voted against, even though in Switzerland these are separated by trivial commuting distances; we live in a yes-voting Gemeinde...)
