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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

California Energy Demand is Tepid Year-to-Date

California (CAISO) electric load has been lagging 2018 thus far in 2019. 



Weather demand was higher than '18 through Feb, and then weakened to an average of 2 degree days below prior year until now. 




Nevertheless, cooling demand is too low to indicate a meaningful change in the relationship between degree days and demand, since cooling matters much more than heating in California: