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In fact, renewable generation regularly hit more than 100% of load in California during April and June of this year. The peak was 132% of load [0]! How can generation be more than 100% of load? California was exporting power to other regions. We track all this data and more across the United States at Grid Status: https://www.gridstatus.io/home [0] https://www.gridstatus.io/records/caiso?record=Maximum%20Ren... reply reply reply We still want to do lots of distribution, but it'll be for reliability reasons rather than cost. 1: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-... reply reply Challenge is getting the pricing model correct for such ancillary grid benefits to make it worth it for developer to build. reply Pumped hydro is one of the better options but it has the ecological impact of just building new hydro power but less great economic impacts because the water level is less stable for people to live beside. reply There’s over 280 million cars in the US, assuming

Oh wow, gridstatus is super cool! I noticed that you have a page on records that have been set. It looks like Ercot released this data today that might be of interest: https://www.ercot.com/news/release/2023-09-14-ercot-provides... I’m curious why there appears to be a pretty significant delta between their data and yours. Also, if you’re open to suggestions, I had trouble finding the pricing for gridstatus. Entirely possible I was missing something obvious, but I wanted to see how much it might cost to get the long term Ercot generation-by-source dataset and couldn’t seem to get a clear…

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