{"id":20099,"date":"2024-05-29T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20099"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:58:08","slug":"2024-05-29-renewables-provided-almost-30-of-us-electrical-generation-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20099","title":{"rendered":"2024-05-29 Renewables Provided Almost 30% of US Electrical Generation In March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That&#8217;s great to see!&nbsp; There needs to be more BESS &#8211; battery energy storage systems &#8211; on the grid to replace all the gas turbine peaker plants that have to supply the grid when the sun sets.&nbsp; Once the grid gets 3 or more times the amount of renewables onto the grid and a lot more BESS then the coal and natural gas plants can be shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xpZiEmMzjb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/05\/28\/renewables-us-electrical-generation-march\/\">Renewables provided almost 30% of US electrical generation in March<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Renewables provided almost 30% of US electrical generation in March&#8221; &#8212; Electrek\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/05\/28\/renewables-us-electrical-generation-march\/embed\/#?secret=qxzog2SLnz#?secret=xpZiEmMzjb\" data-secret=\"xpZiEmMzjb\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s great to see!&nbsp; There needs to be more BESS &#8211; battery energy storage systems &#8211; on the grid to replace all the gas turbine peaker plants that have to supply the grid when the sun sets.&nbsp; Once the grid gets 3 or more times the amount of renewables onto the grid and a lot<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20099\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3187,249,642,950,2647,836,722,543,3179,348,542],"tags":[3530,641,1855,3531,369],"class_list":["post-20099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bess","category-electrical-system","category-energy","category-generation","category-generation-electrical-system","category-hydroelectricity","category-newsmedia","category-solar","category-vpp","category-websites","category-wind","tag-3530","tag-electric","tag-generation","tag-march","tag-renewables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20100,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099\/revisions\/20100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}