California produces 238.5 GWh renewable power on May 16

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

California’s renewable power output on May 16, excluding large hydro, rose to 238,492 MWh from 202,088 MWh a day earlier.

Statistics by the California Independent System Operator Corp (ISO) show that wind farms in the US state produced 104,613 MWh, up by 37.29% day-on-day. Wind power's daily peak arrived at 4,914 MW at 1700 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Solar photovoltaic (PV) farms produced 85,031 MWh, up from 76,739 MWh on May 15. At 1100 PDT a daily peak of 8,904 MW was reached. In addition, solar thermal power plants generated 3,093 MWh, or 4.24% less power than on May 15.

California also produced 23,360 MWh of geothermal power.

California's Renewable Power Generation Structure
RES TYPE	SHARE IN TOTAL RES GENERATION
Wind	43.86%
Solar	35.65%
Geothermal	9.79%
Small hydro	5.48%
Biomass	2.38%
Biogas	1.53%
Solar thermal	1.30%

California is the US' leader in terms of renewable energy deployment and use. It has kept the top spot in the US Clean Tech Leadership Index for the eighth year in a row.

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