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California is an excellent place to build out solar. They got the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert, the later being the largest one in North America. The only time they need storage support is for the predictable hours of the night, and rare weather conditions. The first is solved by a few hours of battery capacity, and the later is solved by fossil fuels or imports. They don't even need that massive investments into grid infrastructure to span the distance between deserts and population centers.

California is the great example for solar power without needing a lot of storage/imports, in a similar way that Iceland is a great example for geothermal.