On: CA grid: real-time status

[missedthecue]

Genuinely shocked the previous record is that old.

[jeffbee → missedthecue]

Mandatory efficiency programs work.

[ZeroGravitas → jeffbee]

Also, grid demand doesn't include home solar, which shows up as a reduction in "demand" which cuts the peak and shifts it later in time.

That 2006 peak is hours earlier than the others too for the same reason.

[dividefuel → missedthecue]

Me too. I would have thought that Labor Day 2017 (106 F in San Francisco) would've been higher, but it was only a very close second.

[inferiorhuman → dividefuel]

https://news.yahoo.com/california-declares-grid-emergency-po...

Yahoo claims the last record was set in 2017.

[dividefuel → inferiorhuman]

Here's my source on the record being from 2006: https://www.caiso.com/Documents/CaliforniaISOPeakLoadHistory...