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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · 7d

More good news for the #WesternGrid

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 7d

In today’s @latimes.com: My column on California’s last coal plant, which is finally closing next month. It’s located in Utah and operated by the city of Los Angeles. I spent a few days poking around: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · 8d

Potentially 100 GW of flexible demand... Even 20GW would be huge.

💡🔌

electrek.co/2025/10/01/h...

HVAC giant Carrier has a solution for AC's excessive grid load: home batteries

Carrier engineers have come up with a scalable solution that can deployed yesterday: pair air conditioners with home batteries.

electrek.co

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Joe Deely @jdeely.bsky.social · 16d

This may be true for the US, but the Western US continues to lower its fossil fuel usage at a steady pace.

The estimate for 2025 is based on the data reported thru July.

#energysky

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Jorgy @jjorgensonmcr.bsky.social · 29d

I'm sure @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social is all over this, but just in case. @mariagallucci.bsky.social tells us "putting panels over 8K miles of federally owned canals and aqueducts could generate over 25 GW of renewable energy — enough to power nearly 20M homes" 🔌💡

www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online

The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.

www.canarymedia.com

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Sep 9

Note: Battery capacity a year ago was 9,309 MW - or about 9.3 GW.

Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Sep 9

CAISO—@californiaiso.bsky.social is out with its latest Key Statistics report, this one for August 2025.

Plenty of interesting info in this report - worth the read.

www.caiso.com/documents/ke...

Below is a sample showing that total battery storage has now passed 14GW.

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Scott Fines @hyalinetech.bsky.social · Aug 24

Question for #energysky folks:

Does anyone maintain a database/listing of actual proposed datacenters in the US(or other large loads)?

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 24

Am interested in this as well. Let me know if you find a public source. We miight start one for datacenters. Also, don’t forget that existing hyper scalers are/will be expanding current datacenters. Facebook,Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc.

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 22

There are already plans to have 320 MW of geothermal added to CAISO grid. Why not increase this to 5 GW?

fervoenergy.com/fervo-energy...

Fervo Energy Announces 320 MW Power Purchase Agreements with Southern California Edison - Fervo Energy

World’s largest geothermal PPAs highlight increasing utility demand for clean, reliable next-generation geothermal energy

fervoenergy.com

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here are some previous peak demand records for CAISO.

Source: www.caiso.com/documents/ca...

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here is the supply chart for yesterday....

Note that at 6:00pm CAISO was actually still exporting. Five years ago, imports were needed to satisfy this kind of demand.

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yesterday was the highest peak demand so far in 2025 on @californiaiso.bsky.social - 43,735 MW at 6:00 PM.

Relatively easy to handle versus a few years ago due to the increase in Battery Storage.

Still, too much gas is being used to meet peak... more firm sources needed.

#energysky

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 21

Love seeing innovative ideas like this...

Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · Aug 21

‘250 kWp prefabricated solar racking carport…done overnight…36 pods over 78 car spaces…mounted on 11 columns with screw pier foundations…largest of spans 14.7 metres…one crew for the 60 tonne mobile crane and one crew for the 25 tonne franna…prefabricated installed >3X faster traditional systems’

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 21

More wind generation for Seattle utility Puget Sound to help replace imported coal generation from the Colstrip power plant in Montana.

- 248 MW Beaver Creek Wind is now operational

#WesternGrid
🔌💡

www.pse.com/en/press-rel...

Puget Sound Energy | Puget-Sound-Energys-Beaver-Creek-Wind-Farm-now-operational

www.pse.com

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 20

California grid operator - CAISO - @californiaiso.bsky.social has released its July Key Statistics report.

Well worth the read.

July was a mild month weather-wise in California, and the stats reflect this.

www.caiso.com/documents/ke...

Here is a sample of the data.

#energysky

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 12

A recent example of #BatteryStorage on the #WesternGrid

🔌💡

bsky.app/profile/terr...

TerraWatts2010 @terrawatts2010.bsky.social · Aug 12

The Seaside, Sundial and Constable battery projects bring the Oregon utility’s large-scale storage capacity from 17 MW to 492 MW. 🔌💡
www.utilitydive.com/news/portlan...

Portland General energizes 1.9 GWh of lithium batteries in major storage expansion

The Seaside, Sundial and Constable battery projects bring the Oregon utility’s large-scale storage capacity from 17 MW to 492 MW.

www.utilitydive.com

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 11

Battery storage is booming in the Western US - even outside of California.

- 7,200 MW of storage as of June 2025
- could have another 3,000 MW by year-end.

Need to keep up this pace if coal is to close out West.

#WesternGrid
#EnergySky

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 11

Caterpillar joins the #datacenter bandwagon.

#WesternGrid

TheHydrogenBull @thehydrogenbull.bsky.social · Aug 11

Data centers are increasingly embracing co-located (often behind-the-meter) generation solutions to accelerate “time-to-power”. Last week, Caterpillar announced it will supply gas powered generators…(1/5) $CAT $BE $BKR #hydrogen #datacenters #EnergySky #GreenSky

www.power-eng.com/onsite-power...

Caterpillar to support multi-gigawatt data center project in Utah

The project would be powered by a fleet of CAT’s G3520K generator sets and support equipment, as well as 1.1 GWh of battery storage.

www.power-eng.com

Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Aug 11

Here is a great BTM battery storage article...

"A 535MW fleet of aggregated household battery storage systems, including Tesla Powerwalls, effectively reduced net load on the California grid in a recent test event."
#energysky

www.energy-storage.news/tesla-sunrun...

Tesla, Sunrun hail ‘win-win for the household and the grid’ with California virtual power plant test

A 535MW fleet of household battery storage, including Tesla Powerwalls, effectively reduced net load on California grid in test event.

www.energy-storage.news

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · Jul 30

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Jul 30

New record for solar on ERCOT grid yesterday - 29,318 MW.
Source = www.gridstatus.io/records

Insane acceleration in solar deployment over the last five years.

Any bets on when solar hits 50GW on ERCOT? Over/Under for July 2028. We take the Under.

@commercialsolarguy.com

#energysky

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Jul 30

Awesome to see projects like re-using "old" batteries.

#energysky

www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...

A pioneering ‘second-life’ battery startup begins major Texas…

Armed with lessons from five years of hooking up used EV batteries to the grid in California, B2U is making a 100-MWh foray into Texas’ volatile energy…

www.canarymedia.com

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Jul 30

New record for solar on ERCOT grid yesterday - 29,318 MW.
Source = www.gridstatus.io/records

Insane acceleration in solar deployment over the last five years.

Any bets on when solar hits 50GW on ERCOT? Over/Under for July 2028. We take the Under.

@commercialsolarguy.com

#energysky

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Jul 26

There are still plenty of "no-brainer" projects like this across the US.

www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/07/edpr...

EDPR developing 2.35-MW solar project to power California water treatment plant

EDPR NA Distributed Generation, the distributed generation business of EDP Renewables North America, and California Water Service have signed a 20-year

www.solarpowerworldonline.com

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Mission City Research @mcresearch.bsky.social · Jul 16

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