More than 15GW of solar capacity will be added to the CAiso in California. An additional 5GW of wind capacity will be installed in the state. 100 GWH of batteries will be installed. It will be a near daily occurrence when the renewable supply surpasses the demand. Load shifting programs will change to encourage people to use their high demand appliances during the middle of the day when the sun is out.

AutoTaxis will take over service in the California Bay Area, Greater Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix and a few other places. This is going to be extremely impactful, the response of developing parking lots into urban places will follow, but not in 5 years. A lot of people, particularly young people and retirees start to see this as a viable alternative to car ownership.

EVs for commercial vehicles will take off. The Rivian van for Amazon and the Tesla Semi for a lot of logistics hubs. They will still be mostly human driven, but towards the end of the decade that is going to quickly change.

The California High Speed rail will face some setbacks but it will get closer to limited 2029 service opening.

15-20 million people in the Boomer-Silent Cohort will pass away. Greatly reducing their political strength. Millennials and some Zoomers will continue to take over political offices. Gen X is a much smaller Demographic than the Boomers, they are not nearly as conservative, the same with millennials who will be aging into their mid 40s in 2028.

The fossil fuel industry will start to face periods of financial distress. Investors are going to see fossil fuel companies as industries that are in long term decline and will be pulling investment money. We will still be using oil and gas, but actual demand will start to decline.