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California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteries (thinc.blog)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

30% isn't "The best we can do." it's the best we've done so far. Nearly every State in the U.S. is busy building out Wind and Solar capacity and that isn't going to stop, the number is going to keep climbing.

The real news in this article is how well the battery piles are doing at keeping the grid stable while meeting demand spikes. It's real world data showing that the base load problem can be mitigated, or even eliminated, if you have sufficient energy storage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It absolutely is the best you can do in 2024. Future goals don't help with now. America should be way further along. Behind both Europe and China in a lot of ways.

The present and the future are two separate issues. But even then future plans seem lower than what they should be.

The battery and grid usage is a good sign for things to come. There was a much better article on this from a few months though. China has done a real impressive job with dropping the battery prices worldwide.