Put a lot of flour on the peel (shovel). Like a lot of flour. Then shake the peel above your counter to get the pizza sliding before you transfer to oven.
In 2021, California produced about 200 TWh in-state and imported about 85 TWh, meaning they imported about 30% of total electricity. Not exactly "almost exclusively" imports.
Also, California regulations certainly permit building new power plants (and many new plants have been built in the past decade), just not new coal fired plants.
Or hydro-electric, or nuclear, or anything that would have meaningful impact on the state's situation.
More solar and wind are great, but they do not respond well to surges in demand, and there is no current way to store energy either.
So some impressive total production number might sound great, but the reality does not follow unfortunately. For a non-trivial portion of the state, electricity isn't a guarantee throughout the year anymore.
When I lived in LA it was frustrating explaining (to my out of state friends) how bad the power situation was. I cancelled many a DnD game because of it.
I eventually got so sick of it , that I left the state for good. I've never been happier.
Ah ok. So kWh is like the length of time of that amount of energy delivered. What's the 2 GW then, like max through put at a given moment in time? So the two examples water storage lasts a really long time but a smaller relative rate of discharge versus battery could discharge the amount stored a lot quicker?
kWh is for energy stored in this example, the "size of the tank". kWh is analogous to toe (tonne of oil equivalent) or gallons of gas.
kW is for power, that is the flow of energy (energy/s), another non SI unit is horsepower. The SI unit for energy is Joule (J), the SI unit for power is J/s. 1 Watt is 1 Joule per second.
