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I'm surprised to learn California has a few GW of batteries. Are these grid scale storage or people's houses feeding back into the grid?
by sand500 3y ago
I'm surprised to learn California has a few GW of batteries. Are these grid scale storage or people's houses feeding back into the grid?
- cwal37 3y agoEverything in that fuel mix is grid scale on the transmission network, not the distribution system that residential batteries are on. Looking at the records[0] page, maximum battery charging is approaching 4.5 GW in CAISO, so they're really trucking along in adding them to the grid. Wouldn't be surprised if they get passed by ERCOT over the next couple of years though, just tremendously easier to interconnect and build a facility in Texas. [0] https://www.gridstatus.io/records/caiso?record=Maximum%20Battery%20Charging https://www.gridstatus.io/records/caiso?record=Maximum%20Bat...
- ipwndev 3y agoI work for a company, that is implementing MWh storage on the grid, we have two very large scale storage projects set to interconnect in Southern California in the coming days. There are more in the pipeline. Grid scale battery storage is arriving, and I am thrilled to see it.
- philjohn 3y agoThe new NEM 3.0 deal makes having a battery pretty much a necessity.