California Grid Operator Asks Geothermal to Help Feed the Duck (Energy Collective)
According to the most recent California Public Utilities Commission report, the state’s investor-owned utilities have built or contracted for their mandated renewables requirements, California Independent System Operator (ISO) VP Karen Edson said, and procurement for geothermal is predicted to fall faster and further than that for wind or solar.
“The 2011 ISO interconnection queue had about 1,300 MWe of geothermal,” she said. “Today we are down to 144 MWe.”
"But geothermal has the ability to move in response to conditions and provide system operators with flexibility,” Edson said. “This industry needs to rethink its baseload generation model.”
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