Electricity And California Covid -- Monday, May 2, 2022

ISO NE, link here:

• 8:30 a.m., Monday morning
• moderate demand at 12,062
• yellow; 7th decile; $110/MWh
• marginal fuel: natural gas
• hydro: at 15% now, has been rising all morning
• renewables: at the bottom of the four fuels, at 9%
• wind: 13% of total renewable, or 1% of total mix

ISO NY: link here:

• 8:38 a.m. Monday morning:
• demand: 16,423
• east (Albany, NYC, LI): yellow, 5th decile, $93 / MWh
• west: green, 3rd decile, $24 / MWh
• fuel mix:
• dual fuel (fossil): 26%
• natural gas: 25%
• nuclear: 21%
• hydro: 24%
• wind: 2% (rounding up)

North Texas, my April electricity bill (my only utility bill; I don't have natural gas, only electricity)

• billing days: 32
• neither heating nor cooling required this past month
  
• average daily use: 12 kWh
• total electricity: 378 kWh
• total due: $55.06
• breakdown:
• energy charge, 378 kWh @ 14 cents/kWh = $52.92
• tax: $1.06
• sales tax, 2%: $1.08

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California Covid

The LA Times is reporting:

After months of declining numbers, California has recorded a nearly 30% increase in coronavirus cases over the past week along with smaller rises in hospitalizations, causing some health officials to suspect that the state is headed into a new pandemic wave. 

The increase coincides with a loosening of COVID-19 restrictions such as mask mandates and vaccine verification rules, as well as the rise of new subvariants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain. The question now is how much higher cases will go and whether new government intervention will be needed. 

Sure, why not? Copy the China model.

The original goal was to "flatten" the curve not go to zero (except in Cuomo's New York state). 

I assume The LA Times has more current data or is watching a different database. On the other hand, we are not given a time frame for the more recent data.

From the source I track: