Seth Masket: It is worth reading through this thread. If you'd told the most optimistic progressive environmentalist in 2020 that this was coming within four years they would have laughed you out of the building.

It is worth reading through this thread. If you'd told the most optimistic progressive environmentalist in 2020 that this was coming within four years they would have laughed you out of the building.

What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs

But, we do still need more batteries to store the all the energy that is going to waste: bsky.app/profile/torr...

“California is grappling with a growing problem: Too much solar - As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.www.washingtonpost.com As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.

Temporary while battery storage ramps up blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batter...

Batteries Taking Charge of the California Gridblog.gridstatus.io Batteries have taken a huge leap forward in CAISO this spring, shifting from a noteworthy trend into a major force impacting operations of the grid

And it’s happening.

California’s battery boom is a case study for the energy transitionwww.atlanticcouncil.org The state’s large-scale deployment of lithium-ion storage batteries is leading to lower solar “curtailment,” or when electricity generation is suppressed due to price signals or physical oversupply.

Yes but not as fast as it needs to. And CA always finds a way to shoot itself in the foot: bsky.app/profile/torr...

“California will side with PG&E to kill community solar projects - State officials are siding with California’s private utilities, which don't like the idea.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

Good problem!

That lots of people are ignoring!

Instead I'm crying

US leads global oil production for sixth straight year- EIAwww.reuters.com U.S. crude oil production lead global oil production for a sixth straight year, with a record breaking average production of 12.9 million barrels per day (bpd), the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a release on Monday.

Thanks for sharing this. There’s a few stats I would have missed otherwise. A not-bleak thread to end the night!

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