SCE adds an extra 590 MW of brand-new power storage space capability

• United States utility Southern California Edison (SCE) has actually signed long-term contracts for four projects totaling 590 MW of battery power storage space sources.

The lately conducted solicitation and resulting agreements are in enhancement to the company's May procurement of 770 MW of energy storage procurement, one of the country's largest. These agreements raise SCE's total quantity of installed and also procured battery storage space capacity to roughly 2,050 MW.

" Bringing much more utility-scale battery storage sources online will certainly boost the dependability of the grid and also additionally the integration of renewable generation sources, like wind and also solar, right into the grid," said William Walsh, SCE vice head of state of Energy Procurement & Management. "Battery storage space will play a vital duty in harnessing the worth of these cost-efficient, carbon-free resources in a trusted way."

Three of the 4 projects are utility-scale projects completing 585 MW, the fourth project is a 5 MW demand feedback contract that will utilize power from customer-owned energy storage. The firms which are involved consist of Recurrent Energy (200 MW), 174 Power Global/Hanwha Group (60 MW), Nextera Energy (325 MW) and also Sunrun (5 MW). The contracts will certainly require California Public Utilities Commission authorization and SCE anticipates to submit them for approval prior to completion of the year. The projects are expected ahead online by August 2022 as well as 2023.

SCE approximates the state needs to add 30 GW of utility-scale storage to the grid and also 10 GW of storage from distributed power sources to satisfy the state's clean energy as well as carbon neutrality objectives. Southern California Edison is one of the country's biggest electric utilities, offering a population of around 15 million via 5 million consumer accounts.