Just to break it down for South Dakota Annual-100.6% WWS as % of demand (78.4% wind; 26% hydro; 1.18% solar) Sum 23-75.4% WWS Aut 23-108% WWS Win 24-109% WWS Spr 24-132% WWS Just adding more solar + batteries will get SD to >100% #WindWaterSolar every season and 24/7/365

And not to be outdone, on the first day of September, California, the world's 5th-largest economy, answers with its 105th day of the year that #WindWaterSolar supply exceeds 100% of main-grid demand for part of the day.

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That's a big jump in clean, renewable electricity UK gets nine new offshore wind farms after latest green power auction msn.com/en-us/money/ma… Prof. Peter Strachan Dr Paul Dorfman Christian Breyer 🦣 Brian Vad Mathiesen 🇩🇰🇺🇦 Christine Milne AO WindEurope @GWEC American Clean Power (ACP)

Fifth U.S. offshore wind farm installs first turbine. Revolution wind farm (704 MW = 64 11-MW turbines) off the coast of Rhode Island will serve both RI and Connecticut. whatsupnewp.com/2024/09/rhode-… What's Up Newp

'Wind energy the largest source of electricity generation in Britain, contributing over 31% of the total, while gas came in second with nearly 17%.' energylivenews.com/2024/09/04/uk-…

Fossil gas use declined on the California ISO grid by 29% Mar 7-Sep 4, 2024 vs 2023 due to a 103% growth in battery output and 11% growth in #WWS output (led by 29% more solar & 6% more wind) DESPITE a 3 F hotter period in 2024. And no blackouts.

Solar crushes gas. Solar alone provided 9% more electricity than fossil gas on California's main grid from March 7-September 4, 2024 (30,915 GWh v 28,370 GWh). In 2023 during the same period, fossil gas provided 24% more electricity than did solar (39,865 GWh v 24,033 GWh).

Someone explain to me why any fossil gas is needed on the grid when we can just ramp up distributed and utility solar PV, batteries, offshore wind, and demand response?

Jonathan Waxman 🦉 Mark Z. Jacobson California ISO Bill McKibben Dr Paul Dorfman Robert Howarth Christine Milne AO Marcelo Mena-Carrasco 🚲♻️ AukeHoekstra David Suzuki FDN Christian Breyer 🦣 Brian Vad Mathiesen 🇩🇰🇺🇦 The top 5 states for wind and solar all have electricity cheaper than the national average. x.com/JessePeltan/st…

Dardedar Jonathan Waxman 🦉 Mark Z. Jacobson California ISO Dr Paul Dorfman Robert Howarth Christine Milne AO Marcelo Mena-Carrasco 🚲♻️ AukeHoekstra David Suzuki FDN Christian Breyer 🦣 Brian Vad Mathiesen 🇩🇰🇺🇦 correct. as Mark Jacobson has pointed out, across America green power equals cheap power

Wind and solar farms power Great Britain’s grid to greenest ever summer "Reliance on fossil fuels fell in August to less than one-fifth of all electricity generated across country" “But gas in the mix still threatens energy bills" theguardian.com/business/artic… Guardian Environment

Global carbon capture and storage potential way overblown, study finds "study says the IPCC estimates are unfeasible" Also, "83% of the world’s current CCS capacity" is used for "enhanced oil recovery. 40% of that carbon leaks back into the atmosphere" news.mongabay.com/short-article/…

“What we need right now is to deploy, deploy, deploy renewables and other technologies...on a large scale” Climate trials & the techs most and least beneficial for an energy transition pv-magazine.com/2024/09/07/tak… pv magazine Our Children's Trust CEE_Stanford Stanford ENERGY Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

"The use of natural gas to generate electricity has dropped by almost a third in one year in the fifth largest economy in the world." Solar Power vs. The Darkness of Trump by Bill McKibben commondreams.org/opinion/donald… California ISO