Batteries at world’s largest solar-plus-storage project supplying California community energy group

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CCAs, able to use the grid infrastructure of the state’s big investor-owned utilities to ensure reliability of supply, offer their member-customers the opportunity to choose where their energy comes from, with many opting for renewable energy.

Regular readers of this site will have seen several dozen stories in the past year or two of CCAs signing off-take agreements for standalone battery storage and solar-plus-storage projects in the state, with Clean Power Alliance among the most prolific.

According to the California Community Choice Association (CalCCA), as of 3 November, 2,645.4MW / 9,237.6MWh worth of long-term agreements for energy storage have been signed by the state’s CCAs to date for solar, wind, standalone battery and solar-plus-storage or wind-plus-storage projects. These are shown on a handy chart on the association’s website, including CPA’s 15-year deal for 100MW / 400MWh from Edwards Sanborn.

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