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> Given that California electricity is pretty expensive even though we have lots of solar energy, how can that be done? Why not sell it to the grid?

Look at wholesale prices of electricity on the grid, and it's really small.

High prices in California are due to PG&E not maintaining the grid and causing massive amounts of damages, which everybody else pays for. Or something. It's really hard to find out why our transmission and distribution prices are so high. And for that matter, generation costs on bills are super high despite people usually getting much cheaper generation prices if they have a Community Choice option that procures their own renewable generation.

In any case, if the desalination project was funded by their own off grid generation they'd have really cheap electricity.