California Wind Energy: All Talk -- June 3, 2019

Updates

Later, 8:56 p.m. CT: with regard to data below, a reader writes, citing a WUWT post, back in June, 2014:

Texas: almost 10 percent of installed wind capacity can be included as dispatchable, what they refer to as ELCC, effective load-carrying capability.

This (8.7 percent) is presently at 920 MW out of an installed base of 12,000 MW wind energy.

Note: comparable posting for the German grid concluded that Germany now (2018) having sufficient wind capacity to supply all their needed power under optimum conditions that the "substitution factor" for additional wind was 5% (the amount of conventional base load that could be retired. That is, 1000 MW of further wind addition enables shutting down 50 MW of conventional power).

This is the kind of "stuff" that:

• the German government and the state of Texas do not tell their ratepayers; and, 
• even if they did, the average ratepayer would not understand

The US federal government has stricter regulation on the transparency of calories in all food sold at supermarkets or in restaurants. Utilities and renewable energy companies are getting "away with murder." 

Original Post 

EIA link here, 2017 data. From twitter today:

Or as President Bush II used to say, "all hat, no cattle."

In land area, isn't California like the third biggest state and as far as wind goes, I think it has some of the best wind in the country, and yet California trails Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas. At 486 "units," CA, KS, and IA combined produce less wind energy than Texas.