Giant Energy Storage Project Hoovers Up Excess Wind & Solar
A massive California energy storage project demonstrates that the heyday of natural gas will soon come to a close, eventually.
A massive California energy storage project demonstrates that the heyday of natural gas will soon come to a close, eventually.
We are living in an era of big batteries, and they are getting bigger. Isn’t there a song about this: I like big batteries and cannot lie. You other utilities can’t deny, that when lightning takes out the power with a roaring CRASH but big batteries flip it back ON.
Tesla has been approved to reinvent the Moss Landing power plant in California as a battery power plant. In fact, it will be approximately 10× bigger than Tesla’s Hornsdale, which was 3× bigger than any other battery storage facility at the time it was built.
Less than two years ago, Tesla built and installed the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Hornsdale, South Australia, using Tesla Powerpack batteries. Since then, the facility saved nearly $40 million in its first year alone and helped to stabilize and balance the region’s unreliable grid.