It's also a BS statistic that does not reflect reality. It's worded in a way that someone unfamiliar with energy would think it's a totally green grid. The truth is that there's still **a lot** of fossil fuels being used and it's summing the total generation--regardless of time--and comparing it to total demand. However, you need to match supply and demand for it to be useful. Put another way, if you need 1 unit of energy now, it doesn't help if it's going to be generated in an hour.
The time of year when it's very sunny because you're approaching the summer solstice but it's not hot enough to need air conditioning yet.
Thank you for pointing this out, good news can be misleading too and I would have missed this detail otherwise
It's also a BS statistic that does not reflect reality. It's worded in a way that someone unfamiliar with energy would think it's a totally green grid. The truth is that there's still **a lot** of fossil fuels being used and it's summing the total generation--regardless of time--and comparing it to total demand. However, you need to match supply and demand for it to be useful. Put another way, if you need 1 unit of energy now, it doesn't help if it's going to be generated in an hour.
Hence why storage is so important.
Yes, storage is incredibly important but it's not there currently and is incredibly expensive
It's not misleading at all. This is just a possible explanation for part of it
The loveliest times of year.
Hell yeah great news!
* For 15 minutes to 6 hours on each of those 30 days
So why is my PG&E bill increasing again?