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Expect another 1GW to come online by year-end.
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Note: This project recently reached commercial operation. A nearby 25 MW solar project will go live in 2026.
The utility for this project is Mohave Electric Cooperative, which is part of AEPCO - Arizona Electric Cooperative.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Note: Battery capacity a year ago was 9,309 MW - or about 9.3 GW.
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Am interested in this as well. Let me know if you find a public source. We miight start one for datacenters. Also, don’t forget that existing hyper scalers are/will be expanding current datacenters. Facebook,Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc.
August 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
There are already plans to have 320 MW of geothermal added to CAISO grid. Why not increase this to 5 GW?

fervoenergy.com/fervo-energy...
Fervo Energy Announces 320 MW Power Purchase Agreements with Southern California Edison - Fervo Energy
World’s largest geothermal PPAs highlight increasing utility demand for clean, reliable next-generation geothermal energy
fervoenergy.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Here are some previous peak demand records for CAISO.

Source: www.caiso.com/documents/ca...
August 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Here is the supply chart for yesterday....

Note that at 6:00pm CAISO was actually still exporting. Five years ago, imports were needed to satisfy this kind of demand.
August 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM