Summary

Solar power has grown to enormous levels in California, and that solar power is keeping wholesale prices low. Wind power, water power, and solar power all mean free fuel, and free fuel means low wholesale electricity prices. This is not news, but given how much people love to exclaim “ California is expensive ,” it did shock me to find out that wholesale electricity is cheaper in California — technically, the California ISO (CAISO) grid — than anywhere else in the country. That news comes to us via Mark Z.

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