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It's not Germany but I always trot out California's electric supply This is a high quality display of current and past supply. You can see everyday you get a h
by Gibbon1 3y ago
It's not Germany but I always trot out California's electric supply
This is a high quality display of current and past supply. You can see everyday you get a huge slug of energy from solar. You go through history and you can see a few days a month in the winter when the output drops by 50%.
Also notable is California exports power during the day and batteries are providing a lot of power during the morning and early evening.
https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
This gives the mix over the last 12 years.
https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/california-electrical-energy-generation https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...
The amount of hydro varies a lot. But it seems solar and wind are slowly depressing the demand for import and nat gas sources.
It's an interesting compare to Germany. California never went in on nukes and hasn't forced existing plants to close. Wasn't dependent on Russian gas for power and chemical feedstocks. California continued to build out solar while Germany stopped. Bonus German dependency on baseload imports from Frances aging nuclear reactors.
Feels like Germany has an excess of black chickens coming home to roost.
Also notable, that hippy progressive unicorns and rainbow state of Texas has about the same amount renewables as California. Which says the Accounts books tell them the same story.