California imported electricity is cleaner on average than internally generated electricity: lots of hydro and nuclear from neighbors, and the big one of the new SunZia massive wind farm. So directly displacing natural gas with imports is 100% win from a climate angle.
CA only produces like 70% of the electricity it uses, they get power all the way from Canada not just WA
Same with the very bottom set of three plots. Between 2025-2026, there's not much change in solar that I can see, but there's a huge change in night-time and morning imports, which depresses natural gas a ton.
Nighttime generation from SunZia would be a likely cause; at least in California night time wind is stronger than day time, usually, I wonder if New Mexico is the same.
https://www.interconnection.fyi/?market=CAISO&status=Active&...
https://www.interconnection.fyi/?market=CAISO&status=Active&...
* https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climat...
The insanity of it all. Do we survive this decade? Are you SURE?
> Do we survive this decade? Are you SURE?
Yes. We simply took our foot of the accelerator pedal for a bit. Regrettable, but that is all. Hopefully a lesson has been learned, but perhaps not. Humans are tricky.
I'd guess if the numbers for grid energy fed to batteries and the output from were compared it might be possible to discern if there was a source of energy that didn't go via the grid and so didn't show up on the stats.