Environment & Energy

... especially natural gas.

Link to CAISO data here:

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html

At the moment 80% of my electricity is coming from renewable sources, 86% of that solar.

I can hear the solar enthusiasts cheering...

Unfortunately, if you try to model some kind of non-nuclear renewable energy utopia using real world data from gigawatt scale energy and energy storage systems in California you'll discover it can't be done, the prognostications of feckless gas shills like Stanford University's Mark Z. Jacobson notwithstanding. ( I mention him only because I recently heard him on BBC radio, where he was being promoted as some kind of expert. "Feckless" is me being nice. For all I know he could simply be duplicitous.)

Unfortunately hybrid gas / solar / wind electric power systems won't save the world and any "transition" to "100% renewable energy" based on natural gas is a lie.