Southern Power to co-location storage space 160MW of storage at Californian solar websites

• United States wholesale energy service provider Southern Power is adding battery power storage to 2 solar sites in California.

Storage will be included in the firm's Serenity Solar Center as well as Garland Solar Center, with Southern Power-- a subsidiary of the Southern Business-- also announcing it has signed 20 year power acquisition arrangements with Southern The golden state Edison (SCE) for the two websites.

At the 205MW Serenity Solar Center in Fresno Area The Golden State, a 72MW/ 288 MWh power storage space system will certainly be added, whilst at the 200MW Garland Solar Center in Kern Country a 88MW/ 352MWh storage space center will be added.

The power storage parts will certainly give flexibility to SCE and also the California ISO (CAISO), improving grid integrity as well as enabling additional renewable energy combination.

" These projects will certainly be two of the initial co-located solar as well as storage projects operating in the California market," stated Southern Power president Costs Grantham, including that the business was thrilled to be part of the effort to "boost California's grid reliability."

" The addition of these storage resources to our tidy energy portfolio is an excellent critical suitable for our company and also will even more place Southern Power to satisfy our customers' requirements as the energy market remains to progress."

Both power storage projects will be had in partnership with AIP Administration as well as Global Atlantic Financial Group, who already have existing possession interests in both centers. Southern Power will certainly be accountable for running the storage, building on their procedure of both solar sites considering that they entered into commercial procedure in 2016.