Ercot Max Solar Record 31 GW

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The peak max solar record in ERCOT was hit today at over 31GW. Five years ago it was only 5.4GW.

The peak renewables to load was also hit today at 83%. Throughout the entire day solar, wind and battery storage provided the majority share of power.

Good show, and it's not even summer yet.

Yes, you can clearly see the yearly patterns in the graph where brighter weather reveals the continual build out that is masked by lower seasonal output.

It's flipped in the southern hemisphere so you get a year round drumbeat of records being broken if you look globally.

edit: it's even starker for the max renewable, presumably because of high air con load in summer so spring gets a high ratio of solar and wind to demand:

https://www.gridstatus.io/records/ercot?record=Maximum%20Ren...

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