Kalifornicate’ya will not be paving their own land with solar and windmills.
What is not already developed is nearly all “Wilderness” or “Park lands” and untouchable.
No, they will speed up what they are already doing, building the same facilities that are too ugly or polluting for their OWN lands in adjoining states.
This is already underway, and the electricity is earmarked by contract exclusively for CA.
It’s really no different than their exporting land-fill operations.
I recently learned that these facilities are also short lived, a couple planned for construction near me will only operate for twenty-four years before being torn down.
Considering the millions in construction cost, such a short operational span can only mean there is a tax scam in the mix.
Even with these schemes there is no way CA can build or contract for enough, I am certain that they will lay claim to NV, AZ, OR, WA, UT, etc. power and the Fed. will go along with it.
So CA mandates will spread the brownouts to the entire western US until the system crashes hard enough to force reconsideration.
CA only gets away with this feculence due to their high population density.
The rest of us are spread too far apart for EV’s to ever work and outside of the major cities they are not going to happen in significant numbers.
So glad I live in a cow county!
IIRC-—NEWSOM has opened up state parks & land for solar farms.