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California peaks at 4+ GW of utility-scale solar generation, meets 18% of demand
This is all utility-scale generation. "Behind the meter", aka rooftop installations, not included.
- EEGuy 13y agoThis 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/california-hits-new-solar-power-record http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/califor... [2] http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html