Three virtual power plant (VPP) programmes have been announced in California and Colorado. Two of them will use Tesla’s Powerwall battery. Another is attempting to change customer habits to save energy and money.
A fire broke out yesterday (16 January) at the Moss Landing facility which houses what was once the world’s largest BESS, owned by Vistra Energy, in California, US.
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) has announced a conditional commitment for a loan of up to US$15 billion to California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E).
Aypa Power has negotiated two resource adequacy agreements with Pacific Gas & Electric covering 500MW/2,000MWh of energy storage from two standalone BESS projects in the Californian cities of Industry and Irwindale.
California Investor-owned utility Pacific Gas & Electric is seeking regulatory approval for a four-project portfolio of hybrid solar and storage resources with over 575MW of battery storage output.
Paul Doherty, principal communications executive at PG&E discusses the California utility’s adoption of energy storage and the many roles it plays for the grid.
California utility PG&E is developing a long-duration energy storage microgrid combining batteries and green hydrogen, in partnership with Energy Vault, the company known for its gravity-based solution.
California utility PG&E has invited residential and commercial customers to enrol onto three vehicle-to-everything (V2X) programmes using EV batteries for a range of use cases.
Cost inflation and supply chain issues have forced California utility PG&E to increase the prices it will pay for 2GWh of battery storage projects, in a move which has been approved by regulators.
