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Instead of going to Twitter, just go directly to the source for up-to-the-minute and historical charts: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html ht
by drewda 2y ago
Instead of going to Twitter, just go directly to the source for up-to-the-minute and historical charts: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
- ro_bit 2y agoWhat does the "imports" chart mean? Is energy imported from outside the grid renewable?
- mschaef 2y agoIt means what it says - imported from a tie to another adjacent network. It can be renewable, but does not have to be.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoHistorically, this has been hydro from surrounding states (like Washington, but also from Canadian BC). I'm not sure what it is today given current water challenges.
- krasin 2y ago> Historically, this has been hydro from surrounding states (like Washington, but also from Canadian BC). I'm not sure what it is today given current water challenges. And coal from Utah. That's still huge at night.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoIf you look at the connection map, https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-United-States-showing-the-Eastern-Interconnection-the-Western-Interconnection-and_fig1_256064655 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-United-States-sho..., I guess the high capacity DC line that serves vegas could be siphoning some Utah power into socal, but there is much more capacity in the connectivity from Oregon and Washington. Reading more, there are two high voltage DC lines into SoCal: one from a coal plant in Delta Utah (2.4 Gw, not just from that plant, but let’s say majority coal), the other from a hydro conversion station on the Columbia in Oregon/washington (3.1 Gw). Looking at the map above it looked like the latter one terminated in Las Vegas but I guess it actually goes into SoCal.
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO?wind=false&solar=false https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO?wind=false&... ("Electricity Maps: CAISO")
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/ https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-ca... ("California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days")
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThe source data doesn't clearly indicate the phenomena being pointed out on Twitter though. And the graph on Twitter cites that url as it's data source anyway.