The national average for renewable energy use is 13% but in California it's 30%. Renewables are awesome but subject to clouds or lulls in the the wind so you n

The national average for renewable energy use is 13% but in California it's 30%. Renewables are awesome but subject to clouds or lulls in the the wind so you need to run a renewable heavy grid with more excess capacity compared to one where only the demand side fluctuates unexpectedly. In the future we can hope to add more short term storage and long range transmission lines to smooth this out. But in the short term I"ll take that trade.