Happy New Year: it looks as though California may have set a new solar record Thursday, with more than 3,000 megawatts of solar electricity flowing into the grid at noon.
The tentative news comes in the form of a graph on the website of the California Independent System Operator (CaISO), the independent agency that manages most of the state's power grid. Though the graph hasn't been reviewed by one of CaISO's actual humans for accuracy, it shows that for almost a half hour starting at noon on Thursday, January 2, more than 3,000 megawatts (or 3 gigawatts) of solar power flowed into the state's grid from its wholesale solar power generating plants.
If that tentative graph turns out to be accurate, that would mean that January 2 -- one of the darkest days of the year -- broke the record for the greatest wholesale solar output in the state's history.