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	California peaks at 4+ GW of utility-scale solar generation, meets 18% of demand (solarserver.com)
	3 points by EEGuy 4475 days ago
	This is all utility-scale generation. "Behind the meter", aka rooftop installations, not included.

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EEGuy 4475 days ago

This peak does not include "behind the meter" (rooftop solar) generation.

The peak last year was 2.07 GW, set in June.

Summary info here [1]; Calif ISO graph here [2]; we didn't quite hit 4GW today 3/12/14.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/califor...

[2] http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html