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by noreiley 786 days ago
On the CAISO page, how can they get to negative CO2 emissions? I doubt this includes CO2 capture, so their math with exports must be shady, no?

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/emissions.html

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It means they're exporting zero CO2 solar power and offsetting fossil-fuel-based-generation in the other state. You'll see that the imports value is also negative (implying exports).
And also they know the CO2 values of the other grids which they display as a positive CO2 when importing electricity from them.