• macarthur_park@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The impact that battery storage has had on California’s grid in such a short time is dramatic. There was an NYTimes article earlier this year unpaywalled gift link that shows power delivery for April 2021 and 2024. In just 3 years, batteries went from almost nothing to providing about 1/5 of the power in the early evenings. That’s absolutely bonkers.