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by toomuchtodo 529 days ago
Ratepayers, and as less and less fossil gas is needed (because batteries [1] [2] [3] and more renewables), their costs for generation and electrical supply should go down. CAISO, California's grid operator, currently has 61.7GW of hybrid solar/battery projects and 42GW of battery storage [4] in its interconnect queue. CAISO current installed capacity is 21.5GW of solar and 13.39GW of battery storage, compared to ~30GW of fossil gas generation [5].

[1] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

[2] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/batteries-are...

[3] https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

[4] https://www.interconnection.fyi/

[5] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO/72h