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Depending on where you are, that's pretty close to what's happened. Right now (4pm), the California ISO is generating 73% from renewables+hydro, 7% nuclear, and
by sephamorr 6y ago
Depending on where you are, that's pretty close to what's happened. Right now (4pm), the California ISO is generating 73% from renewables+hydro, 7% nuclear, and the balance gas. Naturally, the night replaces solar with gas.
This is largely how California has reduced electricity emissions to their current levels.
- bananabreakfast 6y agoAnd that nuclear power is just from a single plant!
- Gibbon1 6y agoAlways gets me that the above is a no brainer. But people married to the argument that we can't have renewables until we solve the storage problem just refuse to even consider it. Disconcerting.