Twitter thread from the California Energy Commission
⚡️#CalEnergy, @californiapuc, & @AirResources today released the first joint agency report examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045.
Read here: https://bit.ly/2QaaUHh
#CAClimateAction #CleanEnergyFuture #SB100

⚡️The report is the initial analysis called for in #SenateBill100.
#SB100 is the state’s landmark policy requiring renewable & zero-carbon energy resources supply 100% of electric retail sales to customers by 2045.
#CAClimateAction #CleanEnergyFuture #RenewableEnergy

⚡️The report found that the goals of #SB100 can be achieved, but reaching them will require significant investments in new & existing technologies. It also requires an increased, sustained build-out of #CleanEnergy projects to bring those resources on-line.

⚡️ #SB100 builds on the significant progress CA has already made toward a #CleanEnergyFuture including efforts that promote renewable energy, energy efficiency & storage technologies.

#CAClimateAction is essential as the state continues to face the damaging effects of #ClimateChange like never before.

Originally tweeted by California Energy Commission (@CalEnergy) on March 15, 2021.
Here is the full press release.
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I’m not seeing much talk about how full of crap the CARB et all are.
8x the present storage means how many minutes of full system load would be stored? 15? 30?
We would need literally days of storage in order to have uninterrupted power, if zero fossil fuel and only existing nuclear base load remains.
Charting a path to the hereafter. Wouldn’t that be nice.
these. bastards. AGW is a scam
I can’t wait to pay $800 a month for electricity.
“The 178-page report finds that the goals of SB 100 can be achieved in different ways, but reaching them will require significant investments in new and existing technologies and an increased, sustained build-out of clean energy projects to bring new resources on-line.”
Please, Sir, what’s a build-out?
Supplementary question: What language do the speak in California?
“Advancements in emerging technologies, increased demand flexibility and cost declines in existing technologies may decrease the total electricity resource requirements and implementation costs.”
But the ability of Californians to invent new ways of talking is obviously on an upcline.
California is shutting down their last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, in 2025. This plant has been providing 9% of California’s electricity 24/7. At the same time that California is shutting down dispatchable power plant, they are requiring new homes in some cities to be 100% electrical. They are also pushing EVs. Therefore, California is adding more electrical usage reducing the amount of dispatchable power production. in 2019, California only produced 71% of the electrical power used in the state. This means that after Diablo Canyon is shuttered, California will most likely need to import roughly 40% of the electricity that California uses. Last summer, California had rolling blackouts.
The “solution” that the brilliant folks in Sacramento came up with is shown in the following website:
Time of Use | Energy Upgrade California® | Energy Upgrade California®
All we have to do is not use electricity between 4 PM and 9 PM. No heating or cooling your home when you get home from work. No hot meals. No charging your Teslas. No lights, TV, computers plugged in.
The production charts on the website I linked, show California producing solar (PV) power between 6:00 and 16:00. Clearly the people who created that graph do not have solar panels on their rooves like I do. At 6:00 on June 23, you might have your solar panels producing a tiny amount of power. Yesterday on my system, the power curve was parabolic at the start of the day and tailed off after 15:30. At 8:30 yesterday, the usage dropped below the production and it stayed that way until about 16:15. Peak electricity from the grid was 19:30 to 22:30. My house idles at 300 to 400 watts. We have natural gas for cooking, heat, hot water and clothes drying. If these are all converted to electricity the way that California wants, my PV system will be negative (drawing from the grid) every day of the year.
“Take a break from chores! Wait to start your dishwasher and laundry until after 9PM or the next morning so that you’re cleaning with cleaner energy.”
Yep, start all those appliances that can break down and flood your house while you are sleeping! That way you can wake up to a fun-filled morning!
These people are clinically insane. End. Of. Story.