other states benefit from California’s inability to use all its solar power. The state’s grid operator uses a regional market to dump cheap or even free energy — utility companies in Arizona ...
given rise to pertinent questions concerning energy consumption in California. Not only does the state suppress the use of solar power, but it has also been paying other states, including Arizona, to ...
Companies buy the RECs ... floor in Phoenix looking for California’s cheap or negatively priced solar power. California grid officials say that paying other states’ utilities to take the ...
That's enough to power 518,000 California homes for a year, based on average electricity usage. "The amount of curtailed solar power has more than doubled from 1.5 million megawatt hours in 2021 ...
To the editor: Every month, California throws away enough solar and wind energy to power half a million homes — not because we don’t need it, but because our system is designed to waste it.