California produces 199 GWh renewable power on October 1

Solar park in California using thin film modules. Author: Russ Ferriday. License: Creative Commons. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic

Renewable power generation in California, excluding large hydro, rose to 198,863 MWh on October 1 from 189,787 MWh in the previous day, according to data by the California Independent System Operator Corp (ISO).

Wind farms in the US state produced 78,897 MWh, up by 18.44%. The daily peak of 3,676 MW was recorded at 0100 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Solar photovoltaic (PV) parks produced a total of 75,436 MWh, compared to 76,372 MWh on September 30. At 1300 PDT a daily peak of 8,792 MW was reached. In addition, solar thermal power plants generated 4,598 MWh.

California also produced a total of 22,469 MWh of geothermal power.

California's Renewable Power Generation Structure
RES TYPE	SHARE IN TOTAL RES GENERATION
Wind	39.67%
Solar	37.93%
Geothermal	11.30%
Biomass	3.66%
Small hydro	3.43%
Solar thermal	2.31%
Biogas	1.90%

Under the California Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) plan investor-owned utilities, electric service providers and community choice aggregators in the state have to reach a 33% renewable energy share in total procurement by 2020.

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