Progress report: Some more of US’ biggest battery projects taking shape

Energy Storage News

After the successful expansion of Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility — the biggest battery project in world to date — was reported last week, progress milestones have been recorded for three more major solar-plus-storage and standalone battery storage projects in California, Hawaii and Florida in the past couple of weeks.

Each of them answers a different aspect of energy system decarbonisation, from coal plant retirement on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, to natural gas retirements in Manatee County, Florida, to a California project which will directly sell dispatchable solar power to local community energy suppliers.

In California, construction began in January this year on Slate, a 300MW solar PV plant with 140.25MW / 561MWh battery energy storage, from which energy will be sold to two community choice aggregator (CCA) energy suppliers and three other off-takers.

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