Take a look below at how much battery storage discharging (purple) offsets natural gas (maroon) after the sun sets in California on the hourly electricity origin graph. Not much further left to go at current battery deployment trajectories.

Conveniently, Tesla’s Megapack manufacturing facility is in Northern California, speeding deployments in state.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2024.02.15/chart2.s... (draw attention to California and the blue battery storage sites)

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2023-10/california-sees-unpre...

https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-ca...

(I too am excited to push fossil gas out of the generation mix! Onward!)