Globe's largest lithium battery bank expands even bigger with 400-MWh enhancement

• The globe's largest lithium-based energy storage space facility has actually just gotten a little bit bigger. Building And Construction of Phase II of the Moss Landing Energy Storage Space Facility in California is currently total, including 100 MW/400 MWh to the site, which now reaches 400 MW/1,600 MWh in total amount.

" This facility provides a solution California desperately requires and also this expansion was able to come online at the right time-- as the summer warm magnifies as well as need for electricity is at its highest," stated Curt Morgan, chief executive officer at Vistra. "The state's laudable tremendous buildout of intermittent eco-friendly power has both reduced exhausts and also presented an integrity difficulty. California produces an excess amount of sustainable power during the day while the sunlight is up, however usually struggles to fulfill demand as the sun drops. Our Moss Landing battery system helps to fill up that dependability space, storing the excess daytime power so it doesn't go to waste and then launching it to the grid when it's required most."

Revealed just 15 months ago with building and construction starting in September 2020, the Phase II expansion project was finished in July 2021, ahead of routine in spite of the many challenges offered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Burns & McDonnell mounted the 2nd phase of LG Energy Solution batteries.

The site is the existing Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, a site that's been giving electrical energy to Californians given that 1950.

" What's terrific regarding this specific site is that it has the room to support even additional growth-- up to 1,500 MW/6,000 MWh-- while properly using our existing website infrastructure, including existing transmission lines and also grid interconnection," Morgan said. "California leads the country in the transition far from nonrenewable fuel sources as well as the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility stands as a version for just how batteries can support periodic renewables to assist produce a trusted grid of the future."

The 100-MW/400-MWh Phase II expansion is running under a 10-year source adequacy agreement with PG&E. The 300-MW/1,200-MWh Phase I project has a comparable 20-year source adequacy contract with PG&E.