I usually check the California ISO Today's Outlook page to see how we are progressing on our way to getting to 33% renewables by 2020.
Happily surprised today to see that we've hit 3.8 GW today in combined solar PV and solar thermal production - about 15% of demand.
Something else interesting - yesterday's net load (total demand - renewables) was lower between 10am-3pm than during the early morning minimum thanks to solar production around 4-5am. Check the 2nd page of this PDF: http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/20140223_DailyRenewablesWatch.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The current renewables generation plot is below:
Happily surprised today to see that we've hit 3.8 GW today in combined solar PV and solar thermal production - about 15% of demand.
Something else interesting - yesterday's net load (total demand - renewables) was lower between 10am-3pm than during the early morning minimum thanks to solar production around 4-5am. Check the 2nd page of this PDF: http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/20140223_DailyRenewablesWatch.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The current renewables generation plot is below: