CA already buys nuclear power from AZ’s Palo Verde plant. Too many peaks and troughs from those renewables. Good thing Tom Steyer’s initiative here failed - it would have forced Palo Verde to close.
“ PG&E has more than 250 contracts for renewable power, and the question of what will happen to the utility’s contracts for renewable power is critical for California, which last year delivered a third of its energy from renewable sources and has a goal to source 60% of its power from renewables by 2030.”
Wow. Those are third world living conditions. So anytime it’s hot and there’s no rain, they’ll shutdown the grid? People better buy backup generators. Just wait until the first person dies of heat exposure, because without power their AC didn’t work. How is this not an issue on Nevada, Arizona, etc?
My guess is they don’t have the same wildfire issue. They actually practice forest management which California essential outlawed. I don’t get how you can shutdown power for a week. Do hospitals even have adequate enough backup power systems for that? What about police and fire?
Do you really think that would work in California? The whole process is driven by emotions and environmentalists. In their mind, it’s more practical to shutoff power than allow forest management. Shutting off power is a win-win since it reduces CO2.
It’s not an issue here in AZ below the Mogollon Rim because we have sane policies to reduce the fuel load. That’s what turned the CA fires into infernos, not PG&E. Winds blow lines down here just like everywhere else. What happens afterward is what’s important.
That’s about what Strawberry, AZ is. Funny thing is PG&E buys nuclear power from our utility to fill in around all the gaps caused by the renewables Sac-o-tomatoes forces them to use.
And Tom Steyer floated an initiative here in the last election - soundly defeated, fortunately - to shut down our Palo Verde nuke plant.
I think they are terrible at basic math. If they think they can leave rates the same and all the profits would fund the grid updates required, then they’ve not looked at the public financial info.