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    Thursday, April 11, 2013

    RECORD NEW ENERGY NUMBERS IN CA

    Record 4,196 Megawatts of Wind on California’s Grid April 7; It was 17.5 percent of the state’s electricity, the equivalent of two nuclear facilities.

    Herman K. Trabish, April 10, 2013 (Greentech Media)

    “Winds that reached over 90 miles per hour on mountain ridges blew down through the wind farms in California’s Altamont, San Gorgonio, and Tehachapi Passes and across the state’s wind installations, raising their outputs to a record-shattering 4,196 megawatts on Sunday evening, according the California Independent System Operator (the ISO).

    “The output was [17.5 percent of the state’s electricity supply and] nearly the equivalent of the combined capacities of San Onofre and Diablo Canyon, California’s two nuclear generating stations…[W]ith the total system producing 23,145 megawatts, California got 6,677 megawatts of its electricity, or 28.8 percent, from renewables.”

    “Renewables constituted the second-largest category of generation during that…hour, according to ISO statistics. The category of highest output, at 7,754 megawatts, was imported energy…[which] typically includes mostly natural gas and large hydroelectric power, as well as imported renewables and a small bit of coal grandfathered into the system. The implication is that renewables may have constituted even more than 28.8 percent of California’s electricity…

    “The specially tasked renewables desk in the Mission Critical Wing of the ISO’s high-tech Folsom, California control center managed the increased levels of wind and renewables without issues…It is already equipped with system tool access to forecasting capability and real-time five-minute market information, so it is capable of managing even more than the 33 percent renewables mandated for 2020…”

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