"The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced its initial selection of 10 federal corridors for the development of multistate, ultra-high-capacity electric transmission lines.
And acting under its own authority, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could approve the right-of-way for a power line located within a national interest corridor, overriding the objections of state officials if necessary."
"#FERC said that reforms to transmission planning received over 30,000 pages of comments, creating the largest public record ever considered by the commission."
I would love to know how many of these comments come from individual people, and how many were in favour of making the #grid renewables-ready.
"Lithium-ion battery prices have declined from USD 1,400 per kilowatt-hour in 2010 to less than USD 140 per kilowatt-hour in 2023, one of the fastest cost declines of any energy technology ever, as a result of progress in research and development and economies of scale in manufacturing."
> there are big questions still being asked about how CSS should handle masonry-style layouts. Some people remain skeptical that this capability should be part of CSS Grid, and want it to instead be its own separate display type. Others are questioning whether or not this kind of layout is needed on the web at all — they aren’t sure that well-known websites will use it.
California power grid now has batteries that can supply 10GW of power, which is a lot. Yesterday they peaked at 4GW vs. total power demand of 25GW in the evening, when solar peters out, per CAISO. (Power demand gets much higher in summer with air conditioning.)
Kris Ankarlo/KCBS: "California just hit an important climate milestone. The state now has more than 10,000 MW of battery storage. Just 5 years ago the state only had 770 MW of storage. And the energy storage industry says the state is on pace to hit 50,000 MW of battery storage by 2045." #climate#batteries#grid#energy#California