alt Hacker NewsCalifornia has huge power cuts and has the benefit of having a very mild winter on top of that (can we even call a 10 degrees celcius minimum as winter? Personally I wouldn't).I wouldn't use them as a successful example of anything.
> In California storage is now timeshifting 50 GWh daily. An expansion that has come in the last few years.
I don't think you realize the scale of the problem, France alone consume 90GWh per day in winter, yes one day. And that isn't going to be any better with all petrol consumption switching to electric.
50 GWh shifting is just a proof of concept at best.
And yeah sure, see you in 2027, for sure it will be the year of storage this time.
The storage and grid upgrades have essentially removed all power outages in California? Again you operate on old information.
On the other hand California do have an absolutely massive air conditioning load in the summer.
> And that isn't going to be any better with all petrol consumption switching to electric.
Electrifying transportation is expected to add 15-25% extra load. A load that is extremely flexible in when it runs and thus perfectly match renewable intermittency.
In 2025 alone China added 168 GWh of storage.
I think you don’t realize how much even 50 GWh of storage causes the entire Californian grid to transform.
Have a read:
https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-solar-storage-spring-2025/