California has so much solar power it's throwing it away

[NNadir]

1. The effect of making electricity worthess is destructive...

...if, as is the case with so called "renewable energy," the power is unreliable and unpredictable.

This is because the O&M on the dangerous natural gas plants on which California is wholly dependent - five such plants are now under construction there - are not covered when the plants are briefly unable to operate, thus raising the costs when they're operable as they must be without the lights going out.

Egged on by dumb journalists promoting selective attention, the failure of so called "renewable energy" to do anything at all about climate change other than to accelerate it, has resulted in extreme and often deadly temperatures in California and around the world. If one follows CAISO as I do, one can see that peak demand in California is often, almost always in the late afternoon and early evening, at which time temperature can remain extreme.

At these times, California's policy is to run gas plants and dump the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere, where it drives climate change.

I often offer my opinion that one cannot get a degree in journalism if one has passed a college level science degree with a grade of C or better. This would also apply to courses in Engineering.