Joe LaRusso, an energy expert at the Acadia Center, drew attention in his Bluesky feed to the fact that rooftop (behind-the-meter) solar on the six-state New England grid pushed down total load (the amount of electricity that power plants had to produce) to a record low by a long shot:

New record for lowest recorded load served by the regional ISO New England grid = 5,237 MW. … 1,577 MW less than the previous 6,814 MW record set Easter Sunday 2023.

Easter Sunday (low usage) on a bright, cool day (lots of solar) is an outlier but that's still amazing. Total power-plant production in early afternoon was less than total rooftop solar production in New England.

https://bsky.app/profile/jglarusso.bsky.social

A record low for total load on New England grid thanks to rooftop solar
byu/GraniteGeekNH inenergy



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  1. And this is just with 5% of homes -imagine 20%, with half having batteries.

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