Calif. may reach 50% renewable power goal 10 years early
By David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle
Two years ago, Gov. Jerry Brown signed an ambitious law ordering California utility companies to get 50 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
It looks like they may hit that goal a decade ahead of schedule.
An annual report issued Monday by California regulators found that the state’s three big, investor-owned utilities — Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. — are collectively on track to reach the 50 percent milestone by 2020, although individual companies could exceed the mark or fall just short of it.
What unbridled nonsense. This so-called renewable power is not being generated in CA. It is being bought from facilities in other states that don’t have nonsensical laws like CA. The reporter and paper are very careful to avoid this issue. They are perjurers if they were in a court of law where witnesses swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Josef Goebbels journalistic standards to the max. Shame on them.
Three weeks ago I passed through Mojave on the way to Los Angeles where there are thousands of windmills. Not one windmill was turning on my trip to LA and my return to South Lake Tahoe. Not one. There were six days between passing through Mojave.
Windmills are lucky to operate 25% of the time (where tens of thousands of birds are killed and injured, including protected species). Photovoltaics don’t function at night or when heavy cloud cover.
We can never consign hydrocarbonpower or nuclear power plants to the buggy whips of history.