From ESS News
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which manages about 80% of California’s electricity, has connected 10.219 GW of utility-scale energy storage to its managed power grid as of the first day of October this year.
The data was released as part of the ISO’s Key Statistics report for September 2024. The 10.2 GW value was a 0.9 GW increase from August’s 9.3 GW on the grid, and a greater than 3 GW jump from the 7.1 GW that was connected as of the state of 2024.
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Color me amazed, from a technical perspective: The future EIA energy storage queue holds 177 GW of capacity? That’s an absurd amount of not only back-up, but general capacity for day to day running of EVERYTHING. At current state energy usage levels, that would run everything for about a day with just a little oversight, making the assumption that every power plant is completely shut down and offline for some disaster-esque movie plot. An event with a minimal probability of actually occurring.