Climate-Colored Goggles

Just after 12 p.m. last Wednesday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shut down the last coal plant directly powering California. The lights didn’t flicker in Southern California. There were no Thanksgiving blackouts. The EIA reported last month that through August 2025, electricity from California’s large-scale solar farms was up 17% from last year; Natural gas generation was down 17%; So it’s a good thing California has also built nearly 17,000 megawatts of battery storage — as much capacity as seven and a half Diablo Canyon nuclear plants.

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