California produces 205.6 GWh renewable power on July 11

Power in California. Author: Jeff Turner. License: Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic.

Renewable power generation in California, excluding large hydro, jumped to 205,613 MWh on July 11 from 174,585 MWh in the previous day, according to data by the California Independent System Operator Corp (ISO).

Wind power generation stood at 71,779 MWh, a 41.61% day-on-day rise. It peaked at 2000 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) to 4,086 MW.

Solar photovoltaic (PV) parks produced a total of 84,754 MWh, compared to 76,418 MWh on July 10. At 1200 PDT a daily peak of 8,409 MW was reached. In addition, solar thermal power plants generated 5,156 MWh.

California also produced a total of 22,562 MWh of geothermal power.

California's Renewable Power Generation Structure
RES TYPE	SHARE IN TOTAL RES GENERATION
Solar	41.22%
Wind	34.91%
Geothermal	10.97%
Small hydro	5.69%
Biomass	2.82%
Solar thermal	2.51%
Biogas	2.05%

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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