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happyopossum on Sept 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: CA grid: real-time status

How much of that is offset by electric cars? California leads the country in those…

bombcar on Sept 6, 2022 [–]

Did some further research, apparently a house uses about 10Mw/y, and an electric car is about 4Mw/y, so it's a pretty substantial increase, but it's not insane.

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