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24/7 Renewable Energy

In 2017, Peninsula Clean Energy set a goal to deliver 100% renewable energy to match demand on an hour-by-hour basis by 2025. This is one of the most aggressive renewable energy goals in the world. We are leading the charge to fight climate change by radically transforming the electricity sector.

Achieving 24/7 Renewable Energy by 2025

January 2023

Our Path to 24/7 Renewable Energy by 2025

December 2021

In December 2021, we published “Our Path to 24/7 Renewable Energy by 2025.” That white paper explained the importance of matching hourly supply with demand. It introduced our vision for 24/7 renewable energy and outlined at a high level how we are planning to achieve it by 2025.

Since then, we have built, tested and leveraged a new 24/7 clean energy procurement modeling tool, MATCH (Matching Around-the-Clock Hourly energy), to answer the critical questions of whether this can be achieved cost effectively and deliver emissions and grid benefits. The results of our modeling, contained in the January 2023 paper “Achieving 24/7 Renewable Energy by 2025,” are extremely positive and support the feasibility of our goal. Our current energy procurement aims to match 100% renewable energy supply with customer demand on an hourly basis 99% of the time by 2025.

We hope our work and our MATCH modeling tool will inspire and empower other California Community Choice Aggregators, load serving entities and utilities, and clean energy buyers in their efforts to achieve 100% clean energy around the clock.

Achieving 24/7 Renewable Energy by 2025

January 2023

Our Path to 24/7 Renewable Energy by 2025

December 2021