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Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town by colechristensen on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:09PM (#41112301)
> but that was over 20 years ago. We’ve made scant progress.

Ugh.

At this moment, 74.2% of California’s electricity is coming from renewables, overwhelmingly solar. Nearly 8% of new cars sold in the US are electric, a similar number of total cars on the road are electric. In ten years it will be nearly 100%.

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town by fcccccbjjv on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:35PM (#41113287)
Are you sure?

This link from 2021 says the net power consumed in CA was less than 34% renewables, and the in-state generated renewables are about the same.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

EDIT: pedantic physics moment. When I say "power" consumed I actually mean the time integral of power over the course of a year, i.e. energy, expressed as GWh

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town by colechristensen on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:59PM (#41113507)
I wrote "at this moment", which meant instantaneously, not overall, or for 2021 as there has been very fast buildout.

Data can be found here: https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply

It has gone up a couple of points since I posted.

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town by fcccccbjjv on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:29PM (#41116171)
Missed that in your comment, sorry.

That being said I find the avg to be the only interesting metric (unless you build power lines)

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town by throwup238 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:46PM (#41112759)
> At this moment, 74.2% of California’s electricity is coming from renewables, overwhelmingly solar.

It's even better than that! The rest is mostly nuclear and hydro so at this moment only 12% of California's power supply produces significant amounts of CO2 [1].

[1] https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town by fcccccbjjv on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:40PM (#41113342)
Unless I'm missing something this is the instantaneous generation, ie it needs to be averaged over 24hr (actually over the year) to get a real picture of CA's energy mix.

(Also, I wouldn't put hydro in the clean energy in CA)

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town by jvanderbot on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:54PM (#41113464)
It's a bit misleading to say Hydro doesn't tackle climate change, though it is environmentally unfriendly.

One particular political party loves to make jokes about "clean" energy, by conflating different definitions of clean. Generally, I think it's fair to say climate change is the biggest concern, so I am comfortable when "clean" or "green" refers to CO2 free.

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town by fcccccbjjv on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:22PM (#41116154)
My concern with California hydro is the water wastage. Nothing excuses the amount of water California wastes.