California produces 210.3 GWh renewable power on June 11

California produces 210.3 GWh renewable power on June 11 sPower's Solverde 1 solar farm in California. (Photo: Business Wire)

California’s renewable power output on June 11, excluding large hydro, fell to 210,289 MWh from 237,591 MWh on June 10, statistics by the California Independent System Operator Corp (ISO) show.

Wind farms in the US state produced 78,376 MWh, down by 24.35% from the previous day. A daily peak of 4,101 MW was recorded at 1700 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Solar photovoltaic (PV) parks produced a total of 80,884 MWh, compared to 85,771 MWh on June 10. At 1200 PDT a daily peak of 8,073 MW was reached. In addition, solar thermal power plants produced 3,356 MWh.

California also produced 24,973 MWh of geothermal power.

California's Renewable Power Generation Structure
RES TYPE SHARE IN TOTAL RES GENERATION
Solar 38.46%
Wind 37.27%
Geothermal 11.88%
Small hydro 6.23%
Biomass 2.81%
Biogas 1.91%
Solar thermal 1.60%

The US installed 2,044 MW of PV capacity in January-March 2017 and California remains the leader in terms of installations.

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