Batteries Taking Charge of the California Grid

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

by syncsynchalt

2 comments

  1. This article summarizes a lot of info we’ve seen recently, but has some great graphs and also brings some new info I hadn’t seen here yet:

    * hydropower is taking the mid-day off now, and moving to a more complementary situation with solar
    * NG producers are going offline and only participating in the cold-capacity market
    * exports are down (probably unsurprising; due to BESS soaking up excess power)
    * imports are up (surprising to me; probably due to NG producers going fully cold since they’re not needed for afternoon peaks)
    * solar production has broken out of its 3-year plateau

  2. Time to build an LNG export terminal on the West coast?

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