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2026-08-24 14:06:24 UTC

dsbatten on Nostr: California is throwing away enough clean electricity to power every household in San ...

California is throwing away enough clean electricity to power every household in San Francisco for a year. It has 2 answers to this. Homeowners can pay $10k - $20k for a battery, or California can build less solar.

It has been doing both. Residential installs are down 66% and 17,000 green jobs have gone.

There is a third answer: flexible demand absorbs surplus the moment it appears, it costs a fraction of a battery, and on rooftop solar the peer-reviewed literature puts its return at 4.8x the battery's.

California has not evaluated it.