AS Published on Saturday 18 November 2023 - n° 466 - Categories:California-Americas States, placing on the market
California moves towards flexible electrical appliances
In order to make better use of renewable energy, California is planning to shift the production of fossil fuel energy when it is most expensive, to the time of day when production is most renewable and least expensive. The state plans to establish
L R AS Published on Sunday 5 November 2023 - n° 464 - Categories:California-Americas States
Translation not available
AS Published on Saturday 8 July 2023 - n° 453 - Categories:California-Americas States
The demand for energy in California requires increasing production
In California, peak solar production and peak demand are increasing because of the need for air conditioning. This increase at different times has to be balanced by energy storage.
The "duck curve" is an illustration of how the electricity network works. It reflects the mismatch between peak solar production (from midday to the afternoon) and peak electricity demand (in the late afternoon and evening).
L R AS Published on Sunday 12 December 2021 - n° 386 - Categories:California-Americas States
Intermittency according to Stanford University: it's not a problem!
Stanford University in the US has modelled electricity grids powered 100% by wind and solar energy in the US. It concludes that there is no risk of electricity shortages in any region.
AS Published on Friday 27 August 2021 - n° 371 - Categories:California-Americas States
Proposed widespread mandatory installation of panels and storage in California
The California Energy Commission has approved new rules that will require solar installations and battery storage on buildings
L R AS Published on Saturday 3 October 2020 - n° 334 - Categories:California-Americas States
California fires affect panel production
Forest fires in California have disrupted the energy production of photovoltaic panels. It fell by 13% in the first two weeks.
L R AS Published on Sunday 29 March 2020 - n° 315 - Categories:California-Americas States
New York allocates 1 GW of solar power at an average price of $0.01859 / kWh
In its call for tenders, New York awarded 1 GW of solar power at an average price of $0.01859 / kWh.
PV Magazine of March 24th
L R AS Published on Monday 23 March 2020 - n° 314 - Categories:California-Americas States
Canada's Boralex to build 180 MW in New York State
Canada's Boralex has just obtained 180 MW of solar power to be built in New York State in four plants. This comes less than a year after the development team took an interest in the New York market.
Tecsol of March 18
R AS Published on Monday 9 March 2020 - n° 312 - Categories:lithium batteries, California-Americas States
Storage will expand in California in 2020
After widespread and prolonged power outages in 2019 that affected 1.1 million homes in California, customers installing solar power are willing to pay extra to add storage for electrical continuity. It can be estimated that
AS Published on Saturday 15 February 2020 - n° 309 - Categories:California-Americas States
Do not specialise only in solar or wind energy
California has 25 GW of solar power in production. Texas has 27 GW of wind power. Specialisation in renewable energy is strong in these two American states.
L R AS Published on Sunday 1 December 2019 - n° 300 - Categories:California-Americas States
To cope with the PG & E power cuts, a pooling of local resources
California power company PG & E was declared bankrupt in 2018 after a huge fire was blamed on it. In 2019, it decided to cut off the electricity supply when there was a danger of another fire. Millions of users were dissatisfied with these cuts.
L R AS Published on Friday 15 November 2019 - n° 298 - Categories:California-Americas States
Power outages in California encourage the use of storage facilities
The power outages in California have prompted many users to decide to equip themselves with batteries to limit the effects of these interruptions.
GreenTech Media of 6 November
AS Published on Saturday 19 October 2019 - n° 294 - Categories:California-Americas States
Can the batteries provide power during a prolonged power failure?
The Californian electricity company PG & E stopped its electricity deliveries for two days because the risk of fire was too great. Last year's fires had been devastating. This did not come as much of a surprise to the 738,000 customers concerned, as they had purchased generators. Their electricity production made the pumping of the well supplying the house with water work. Batteries provided the water supply, ran the refrigerator and even sawed some wood.
AS Published on Sunday 13 October 2019 - n° 293 - Categories:electricity companies, California-Americas States
Finding electricity generators to compensate for the closure of gas-fired power plants in California
The Californian authorities' desire to achieve 60% renewable energy by 2030, and 100% by 2045, creates the need to install electricity generators to compensate for the closure of natural gas power plants. This is because natural gas power plants currently constitute the major energy supply base in the United States, with 34% of the country's energy supply coming from renewable sources.
L R AS Published on Thursday 12 September 2019 - n° 289 - Categories:California-Americas States
A new replacement of a gas-fired power plant with renewable energies and storage
California has just agreed to let the 8minute energy supplier replace its gas-fired power plants with renewable energy coupled with batteries. The Eland project is