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scarejunba on Aug 16, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Big Coal Plants Begin to Close

In California, it's 3.3% and that's all imported power that's on existing contracts. We will be free of this very soon https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_sys...

jhayward on Aug 16, 2019 [–]

California is an outlier, having the advantage of being a low-demand (per capita) state with access to abundant hydro power from the NW area. As well as some of the highest power costs in the US.

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