California produces 237.6 GWh renewable power in a day

Power transmission line in California. Author: Keoni Cabral. License: Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic.

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

This follows 222,665 MWh generated on June 9 and 201,078 MWh on June 8.

Wind farms in the US state produced on Saturday 103,604 MWh, up by 28.50% day-on-day. A daily peak of 4,759 MW was recorded at 1700 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Solar photovoltaic (PV) farm produced a total of 85,771 MWh, compared to 91,715 MWh on June 9. At 1200 PDT a daily peak of 8,562 MW was reached. In addition, solar thermal power plants generated 1,781 MWh.

Geothermal power plants produced 24,138 MWh for the day.

California's Renewable Power Generation Structure
RES TYPE	SHARE IN TOTAL RES GENERATION
Wind	43.61%
Solar	36.10%
Geothermal	10.16%
Small hydro	5.32%
Biomass	2.55%
Biogas	1.70%
Solar thermal	0.75%

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.

Choose your newsletter by Renewables Now. Join for free!

More stories to explore