California is harnessing solar power thanks to a big battery boom, providing a glimpse into Australia’s energy future
From ABC News (6/8/24)…
California is harnessing solar power thanks to a big battery boom, providing a glimpse into Australia’s energy future
It’s not just crystals getting charged in California. In the Golden State, famous for its clifftop mansions, wellness culture and iconic Hollywood hills, big batteries are now setting global trends by transforming the energy system.
For the first time ever, California’s batteries took over gas as the primary source for supplying evening power demand in April, providing “akin to the output from seven large nuclear reactors” one evening, according to the New York Times.
These records were broken in the Californian spring, when there was plenty of sunshine without the summer heat that causes people to turn on the air-conditioning and consume more power, but it’s a sign of the shift underway.
California’s wind farm in the Mojave Desert is the third largest onshore wind energy project in the world.(Reuters: Toby Melville)
