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What? This title is a complete lie. This is just obviously false on its surface, but the article contains several lists of all the other sources of power during the period.
did you change the title? it wasn’t 100% powered by solar and battery
No, I edited the sub-heading.
On February 1, 2026, California’s batteries bridged the solar gap with seamless precision. After discharging through the night until sunrise, they spent the daylight hours charging, then pivoted back to exporting power well past midnight—effectively sustaining the state on solar energy for a full 24-hour cycle.
yeah battery power was exporting to the grid over a full 24 hours but definitely not 100% powered
The batteries were charged by the solar panels.
The current post title "For the first time, the state of California was 100% powered by solar+batteries for a full 24 hour period."
Doesn't match the article title/headline
And the article doesn't imply what the current post title says:
sunlight at least partially powered the state for well beyond 24 hours straight.
Just below the above quoted part, the article has a graph detailing how much of the power supplied was solar vs other sources over the course of that day.
Nah, it will never work. Tear it all down, and buy coal.
And we did it under capitalism with neoliberal incentives and corporate middle men scraping profit off the top every step of the way.
I wonder if Cali’s electricity prices will be on a downward trend during the next decades.
Unfortunately xAI wants to plug their diesel powered data centers into the grid to save money so probably not
PG&E would never allow that
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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