Actually, you might be surprised at how much of California’s electrical energy is supplied by renewables:
https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_system_power.html
According to the table at the link, solar and wind each generate slightly more electrical energy that either nuclear or oil.
Natural gas is well and away the largest single source of electrical energy generation at 35%.
But all renewable sources combined contribute 31%. The high percentage surprised me when I looked it up. I had wrongly assumed the percentage would be much lower.
These are government numbers, so appropriate caution in accepting/adopting them is necessary. (Especially when they don’t know the source of 10% of their power generation.)
“But all renewable sources combined contribute 31%. The high percentage surprised me when I looked it up. I had wrongly assumed the percentage would be much lower.”
About 10% of that is imported from out of state. As for nuclear, they’ve shut down most plants and forbid the building of new ones.
And we’re paying around 30cents per KWh (and going higher) once you get past the basic survival rate tier . Most other western states are paying around 10cents/KWh.
I have nothing against solar or wind, I’m for “all the above”, whatever works and is competitive. But here in California the environuts have taken the cheaper options out of the equation.