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How Does California Produce Electricity?
Natural Gas has been California’s chief energy source for producing electricity since 2001 but that has changed in 2017 when it
got overtaken by renewable sources – solar and wind. This was partially thanks to California’s reputation as a sunny state and partially due to aggressive state policies promoting green electricity.
As a result, solar and wind now account for nearly 38% of the state electricity generation, followed closely by natural gas with 37%. Interestingly, California also has
the second-largest conventional hydroelectric generating capacity in the U.S. after Washington state and is among the nation’s top four hydropower producers.
However, the amount of hydroelectric power produced in California fluctuates, mainly as a result of drought seasons (notable example includes the dry year 2015 when hydropower supplied only about 7% of California’s net generation). Nowadays,
hydropower contributes approximately 15% to California electricity generation tally.
Other energy sources are negligible. The state’s nuclear capacity and generation have been on the decline ever since the government embraced solar (it now contributes only about 10% to generated electricity) and the share of petroleum and coal in the energy mix is almost too small to mention.
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