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California has strengthened its electrical grid significantly in recent years: no rolling blackouts or grid emergencies during heatwaves because of solar energy and battery storage (“now equivalent to 5 very large nuclear power plants”). https://thinc.blog/2024/07/14/california-grid-breezes-through-heat-wave-due-to-renewables-batteries/