It’s not often that we get to put the future grid to a real-world test and see how it performs.
That happened during California’s historic heat wave and the electricity shortages it created. After years building up a nation-leading market for renewables, energy storage and distributed energy resources, California faced the heat wave with a grid system that looks more like what the future holds than what you see in most other states.
These new tools did not save the day.
Source: Greentech Media