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California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteries (thinc.blog)
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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 76 points 4 months ago

No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage, now equivalent to 5 very large nuclear power plants.

Love to see those batteries paying off immediately. Also didn't realize it made California a net power exporter during peak hours.