Hopefully this California bill pushed adoption which may create new standards and new tech to push this market forward rapidly.

Not having to get a permit is a huge plus for most people.

I agree, but 800W is really just scratching the surface for this tech. The company that I bought some equipment from years ago was Legion Solar. Been waiting forever for the product I bought years ago, but they did have a complete plug-in solar home energy system that could scale to kWs.

My goal would be to figure out a way to maximize plug-in solar. Maybe 6kW!

A company I know (but wouldn't recommend) had a device that attached to your main to make sure the plug-in solar didn't push to the grid.

800W is nice, but could be a lot more.

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The max plugged into the house grid using plug-in solar could actually probably get close to the max that the main line to the house could handle (whatever that is for your house). BUT it'll have to be done over outlets on different circuits. 800 watts seems like only a fraction of what it could be.

I'm not sure if the house voltage/amperage could be used to determine if the home electricity network is saturated. This is how the old home battery systems work, but not sure how that relates if there are no home batteries.

There may be a situation where a user plugs in too much solar for the house/etc to handle the reverse load. Especially if the house is off the grid.

A special device may need to be added to breaker boxes to handle these situations. Maybe an alarm with a disconnect feature for the circuits involved.

Products to do this used to require a device to make sure electricity wasn't uploaded to the grid. Maybe modern plug-ins have fixed this complexity?

Uploading to the grid without compensation would simplify things quite a bit. I'm not sure if the CA electrical system could handle this though.

A relative just got lung cancer. Not a smoker either and not looking good! Just had the unfortunate luck of being around the California wildfires (like many Californians), and maybe second-hand smoke as a kid.

Clean air matters!

Thanks for posting this. Great current information on the state of nuclear affordability and geothermal innovation.

I didn't realize that conventional drilling techniques can drill that deep in a cost efficient manner (3-5 km).

Geothermal might actually be quite drone resistant as well. I wonder how much of the machinery could be buried with the pipe? DoD backing for an electricity grid could propel it forward.

I didn't realize that conventional drilling techniques can drill that deep in a cost efficient manner (3-5 km).

Geothermal might actually be quite drone resistant as well. I wonder how much of the machinery could be buried with the pipe? DoD backing for an electricity grid could propel it forward.

11/ Major insight: ALL energy transition studies have been wrong for batteries & the system impact, as the used Reference scenario has used the least cost battery cost for the previous five years. The battery cost decline has been much faster than expected www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/11/t...

For all those who get the great idea of throttling nuclear reactors. This has been tried for decades and France said it was actually not good for the reactors (causes cracks and such that are very expensive to fix).

According to EIA data, increases in BTM output have exceeded decreases in grid demand, indicating that BTM PV can account more than 100% of the decrease. This doesn't mean other factors don't also contribute to decreases in demand (e.g., weather changes).

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Grid demand is down because the growth of behind-the-meter PV (rooftop PV) electricity production has avoided people's needs to use grid electricity. This is an obvious solution to the growth of grid demand in other states due to datacenters and EV and electric heat pump adoption.

Would be great to see an article that you vouch for outlining your exact views on what works and what doesn't work in the CA program.

It's painful to see nuclear nerds educate themselves empirically through real world experience. Very costly and wasteful...

Next up: move those batteries close to load centers. The main driver for electricity prices will soon be maintenance inflation on transmission lines.

Batteries can trickle charge 24/7 reducing transmission line needs. Moving WWS generation closer to load will also reduce costs and fire risks.

Nice to see that out of state electricity is largely WWS as well.