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Keeping California’s lights on in emergencies with DERs

The fossil fuel industry jumped at the opportunity to blame clean, renewable energy sources, like solar power, in the aftermath of California’s mid-August blackouts. But the attack on solar did not pass the smell test. Fossil fuel power plants under contract with utility companies were the resource that failed to deliver much-needed electricity, writes Bernadette del Ciaro, executive director of the California Solar & Storage Association. And this resulted in blackouts.

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pv magazine

02 Nov 2020

Source: U.S. Department of Energy, 2019

In the wake of California’s summer blackouts, the state’s energy agencies published a preliminary analysis as to the causes that include climate change, day-ahead energy market challenges, and the need for more net peak, or summer evening, resources such as energy storage. The question for California’s electric utilities and grid operators is whether or not …

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