Does California have a separate grid? Surely there's demand for electricity elsewhere when too much is being produced for the demand in California. Isn't the the point of having a grid?
I, too, am confounded. We generate twice as much electricity as we use in North Dakota, 55% coal, 33% wind (which is abundant here), and the rest Natural Gas and misc. We sell that surplus to Montana, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Canada.
Surely there are some Business folks with those high powered degrees that could find a market for California's surplus. Why, they could even power pump jacks if they'd let oil drilling continue, or maybe some industry...surely they could find some market?