by drewda on 4/15/24, 9:06 PM
by ApolloFortyNine on 4/15/24, 9:39 PM
Price of power in California is 32c per kwh, in Virginia I pay 13c.
Quick search shows at least 80% of my power comes from nuclear and natural gas, so it's not like we're putting out rediculous emissions over here.
Just thought it was important to put into perspective the cost of this.
by gandalfian on 4/15/24, 9:14 PM
"with renewables".
(Not sure the headline makes sense without that?)
by george-in-sd on 4/15/24, 10:06 PM
Excluding Nuclear/Hydro, 35% of California's energy is from intermittent energy. Germany is around 45% so there is room to grow. I suspect it will get more and more expensive to scale past 50% -- the state will be required to keep all of the non-intermittent energy infrastructure for cloudy days.
by dgrin91 on 4/15/24, 9:22 PM
How does this stack up with the other relatively recent news that Cali was asking people to unplug their EVs because the grid couldn't handle it? Was that just due to the fluctuating nature of renewables (cloudy, windless days)?
by DarmokJalad1701 on 4/15/24, 9:29 PM
by dividefuel on 4/15/24, 9:46 PM
Happy to see progress here, but days like today seem like easy targets for meeting demand with renewables: Most of the state seems to be between 55-75°F (low demand), cloud cover seems light, and the days are reasonably long (high supply).
Again, progress is nice. But I'm still skeptical how well the state's grid can handle another major statewide heatwave, to say nothing about the transition to EVs.
by johlindenbaum on 4/15/24, 9:12 PM
Big supporter of renewables, but what's missing here is the make up of what's getting imported. The overnight baseline appears to still be majority imports from, I assume, non-renewables?
by Ferret7446 on 4/15/24, 9:56 PM
Maybe that excess could have been used to offset the regular power outages we're seeing here in CA? The demand is zero when the power is out.
by bcrosby95 on 4/15/24, 9:48 PM
> supply has exceeded demand for 0.25-6 h per day.
Cool, but still a long ways to go.
by blackeyeblitzar on 4/15/24, 9:38 PM
The US needs to tax its biggest corporations heavily and funnel the funds into rebuilding its infrastructure sector, including the entire nuclear industry. That’s the only way we can have passively safe reactors everywhere.
by drdrey on 4/15/24, 9:23 PM
for 0.25-6h per day… that’s a weird benchmark
by jandrese on 4/15/24, 9:02 PM
...wind, water, and solar.
Bad news for companies that make their profit by burning dead dinosaurs.
by martinbaun on 4/15/24, 9:11 PM
Probably gonna get downvoted, but the only sane solution is nuclear.
Also, I don't want a nuclear power plant in my backyard.
I know that's the problem :)
by windows2020 on 4/15/24, 9:30 PM
How is this interpreted any other way than power generation is inadequate and temperamental sources are being used to accommodate the inadequacy and this won't work when conditions aren't right... like on a cloudy day?