California peaks at 4+ GW of utility-scale solar generation, meets 18% of demand
solarserver.comThis is all utility-scale generation. "Behind the meter", aka rooftop installations, not included.
This is all utility-scale generation. "Behind the meter", aka rooftop installations, not included.
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This peak does not include "behind the meter" (rooftop solar) generation.
The peak last year was 2.07 GW, set in June.
Summary info here [1]; Calif ISO graph here [2]; we didn't quite hit 4GW today 3/12/14.
[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/califor...
[2] http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html