Why are the live statistics so different than the conclusions in the paper?
Here you can see that CA power is more than double the cost of PJM, Southwest, and Midcontinent power. Whenever I look at it, CA is still be burning a huge amount of natural gas, especially overnight.
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Why are the live statistics so different than the conclusions in the paper?
Here you can see that CA power is more than double the cost of PJM, Southwest, and Midcontinent power. Whenever I look at it, CA is still be burning a huge amount of natural gas, especially overnight.
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso
The paper is about short periods of a day when renewables are meeting more than 100% of demand.
If that broke the grid then there would be little future in building out wind and solar beyond a small fraction of energy.
The paper demonstrates it's not a problem, so further progress to making all of the grid's energy clean can continue.