GreenTrack — California 2025 findings

Energy (EIA, CAISO), weather (Open-Meteo, 5 cities) and air quality (OpenAQ, 10 reference monitors), processed by the GreenTrack data pipeline.

All six phases complete and reviewed. Phase 6 results: 202 automated tests passing; a full rebuild from raw data reproduces the processed tables exactly and the analytics tables to within 1e-15; every KPI view answers in under 5 ms. Data: calendar year 2025, California local time.

Energy

Renewables and imports by month

Renewable = solar, wind, hydro and geothermal (EIA definition). Share of generation peaks in spring; imports peak in winter.

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2025 net generation by fuel (TWh)

Total 186.3 TWh vs 224.0 TWh demand: California imports the rest. OTH is net negative (battery charging).

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Grid demand load factor by month (%)

Average ÷ peak hourly demand. Lowest May–Sep, when afternoon air-conditioning peaks sit far above the daily average.

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Weather and air quality

Monthly mean temperature by city (°C)

Inland Fresno and Sacramento swing most; San Francisco least. Statewide 2025 mean 17.1 °C.

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Days with daily mean PM2.5 above 35 µg/m³

A monitoring indicator, not a regulatory determination. LA's worst day was 79.0 µg/m³ on 8 Jan.

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Data quality

A one-hour EIA glitch: 31 Jul 2025, 13:00 local

Hourly demand drops from 29,881 to 11,819 MWh and recovers the next hour; fuel totals disagree with net generation by 8.2 % in the same hour. Kept (validation never changes values) and logged as an open issue.

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Issues logged in the final validation run

Accepted = known and expected (decided at the Phase 4 review); open = still worth attention. 0 records failed a hard rule.

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Air-quality coverage: share of 2025 hours with a reading

29 sensor series at 10 AirNow monitors. Dashed line at 90 %.

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Analytics reconciliation (spec success criterion 4)

Every daily and monthly KPI input is recomputed from the hourly data and compared.

Key findings along the way