{"id":6343,"date":"2025-01-11T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:12:01","slug":"opinion-california-s-energy-glut-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-california-s-energy-glut-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: California\u2019s energy glut, part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6343\" class=\"elementor elementor-6343\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-476c97d4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"476c97d4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74f0fc23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74f0fc23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Is it possible for a state to produce too much energy? The knee-jerk answer is \u201cNo.\u201d But, in reality, California produces far more energy from a renewable source than we can use. The production of electric energy in California is our Gordian Knot, a seemingly unsolvable problem. And the heart of the problem is that electricity from a renewable source, specifically the Sun, unlike energy from petroleum, like gasoline, cannot be stored for any appreciable length of time.<\/p><p>Shannon Eddy, executive director of the Large-Scale Solar Association, says that most industrial-sized batteries can store solar energy for only about four hours. But, when the batteries are full, solar energy continues to arrive off the grid. So, existing energy has to be dumped somewhere. Of course, that \u201cdumped\u201d energy has already been paid for, and that cost is passed on to the ratepayers, like you and me.<\/p><h2>Higher electricity rates<\/h2><p>You\u2019d think that having more electricity than we need would lower the cost to consumers. But the old rules of supply and demand no longer apply. When Adam Smith published \u201cThe Wealth of Nations\u201d in 1776, the book that defined the roots of free-market capitalism, he wrote by candlelight. I doubt that even the most gifted prophet of the times could have imagined harnessing the power of the Sun.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible for a state to produce too much energy? The knee-jerk answer is \u201cNo.\u201d But, in reality, California produces far more energy from a renewable source than we can use. The production of electric energy in California is our Gordian Knot, a seemingly unsolvable problem. And the heart of the problem is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}