OH Bull$hit.. the available power is 50k megawatts and the demand rarely exceeds 40K megawatts since running out all the large business firms, Canaries, and manufacturing. Last time they had a big demand was about 2006. CAISO.
At least they didn’t need 1.2 gigawatts!
If CA does exceed 50K Megawatts Mexico may be able to make up the difference. //sarc off//
“the available power is 50k megawatts and the demand rarely exceeds 40K megawatts since running out all the large business firms”
Peak power supply includes natural gas peaking plants. There is not enough pipeline capacity to supply these plants. On peak days, like recently happened there will be rolling blackouts.
Here is an article from the Institute for Energy Research from 2016 predicting the exact same thing.
http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/california-electricity-shortage-issues/