{"id":187456,"date":"2024-04-16T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T05:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/california-exceeds-100-of-energy-demand-with-renewables-over-a-record-30-days"},"modified":"2024-04-16T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T05:23:16","slug":"california-exceeds-100-of-energy-demand-with-renewables-over-a-record-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/california-exceeds-100-of-energy-demand-with-renewables-over-a-record-30-days","title":{"rendered":"California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/california-exceeds-100-of-energy-demand-with-renewables-over-a-record-30-days2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California\u2019s main grid for 30 of the past 38 days.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z. Jacobson has been tracking California\u2019s renewables performance, and he shares his findings on Twitter (X) when the state breaks records. Yesterday he posted:<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson notes that supply exceeds demand for \u201c0.25\u22126 h per day,\u201d and that\u2019s an important fact. The continuity lies not in renewables running the grid for the entire day but in the fact that it\u2019s happening on a consistent daily basis, which has never been achieved before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California\u2019s main grid for 30 of the past 38 days. Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z. Jacobson has been tracking California\u2019s renewables performance, and he shares his findings on Twitter (X) when the state breaks records. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}