California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteries

Hell yeah let's gooooo. My little solar roof is doing it's part.

The impact that battery storage has had on California’s grid in such a short time is dramatic. There was an NYTimes article earlier this year unpaywalled gift link that shows power delivery for April 2021 and 2024. In just 3 years, batteries went from almost nothing to providing about 1/5 of the power in the early evenings. That’s absolutely bonkers.