This might trigger some with backwards beliefs…Amazing what they have done on infrastructure building in such a short amount of time.
In May, California became the first known large-scale power system in the world to have relied on more than 50% solar power for an entire month.
Californians just made it through the hottest August on record without having to endure any rolling power outages.
And, as the Southland continues to sweat its way through record-setting heat and humidity this week, there have been no widespread calls to reduce energy.
During the August heat wave of 2020, the California Independent System Operator, which manages the flow of electricity for most of the state, declared a Stage 3 Emergency and hundreds of thousands of households lost power in rolling outages.
At the time, the system had less than 100 megawatts of battery storage available, according to system spokesperson Jayme Ackemann.
Today, it has more than 17,000 megawatts available.
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