Flattening the Duck Curve: batteries reach 44% of evening demand in California
bronson
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April 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
Havoc
Not sure I'd call california the 4th biggest economy in an article about electricity. If you pretend it were a country it would come in somewhere around the 30th mark on usage give or take...similar to like Sweden
3eb7988a1663
Seems a weird thing to highlight - the battery output at a single moment in time. If you could coordinate it properly, I would guess that there is enough capacity that you could meet 100% of power needs, if only for a moment. Would make more sense if you reported what fraction of the entire night energy demand was offset by batteries. Which eye-balling it, still appears to be a healthy amount.