California produces 222 GWh renewable power on June 25

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

Renewable power generation in California, excluding large hydro, rose to 221,699 MWh on June 25 from 201,262 MWh in the previous day, according to data by the California Independent System Operator Corp (ISO).

Wind farms in the US state produced 76,407 MWh, up by 9.15%, and hit a peak of 3,913 MW at 1800 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Solar photovoltaic (PV) parks produced a total of 93,643 MWh, compared to 82,132 MWh on June 24. At 1300 PDT a daily peak of 9,175 MW was reached.

Solar thermal power plants, meanwhile, produced 5,285 MWh. Geothermal power plants generated 23,090 MWh.

California's Renewable Power Generation Structure
RES TYPE	SHARE IN TOTAL RES GENERATION
Solar	42.24%
Wind	34.46%
Geothermal	10.42%
Small hydro	5.95%
Biomass	2.75%
Solar thermal	2.38%
Biogas	1.91%

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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