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This paper makes an error that is all too common in discussions of power grids. It talks about the California grid. Except there is no such thing, California
by buckle8017 1y ago
This paper makes an error that is all too common in discussions of power grids.
It talks about the California grid. Except there is no such thing, California is on the Western grid which is operated by WECC.
The actual mix of energy on the western grid is here.[1]
[1] https://feature.wecc.org/soti2025/soti2025/resources/index.html https://feature.wecc.org/soti2025/soti2025/resources/index.h...
- hvb2 1y agoBut California has this: https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook
- buckle8017 1y agoCalISO is a weird entity. WECC has essential subordinated contracting within a subset of the Western grid to CalISO. However it's not actually a separate grid. So when analyzing stability issues from inverter based sources of power (solar/wind/batteries) we can't use CalISO numbers since they can (and do) actually draw power from outside the CalISO grid area.