Vistra Introduces Expansion Of California Storage Facility To 3000 MWh

• The expansion will certainly make this the world's biggest battery storage facility
• Vistra today announced that it prepares to additional expand its Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in Moss Landing, California.

The firm has actually entered into a 15-year resource adequacy agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for a brand-new 350-megawatt/1,400- megawatt-hour battery system. This would certainly match the existing 400 MW/1,600 MWh of energy storage space capacity already at the site. On Jan. 21, 2022, PG&E submitted its application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to accept the agreement, with a choice anticipated within 180 days.

Curt Morgan, Vistra CEO states that "These innovative battery energy storage space systems are necessary to keep electric grid dependability as enhancing degrees of periodic renewable power are integrated right into the electrical grid."

Like previous phases, Moss Landing Phase III will certainly have the ability to move quickly as a result of the use of an already-approved development authorization and also its area on a Vistra-owned power plant site with existing interconnection as well as infrastructure. At its plant sites in California and also across the nation, Vistra has been recovering and also repurposing sites that have been historically used for nonrenewable fuel sources, changing them with renewables and battery storage, causing financial task and tax obligation base for the communities.

Today's statement brings the Moss Landing site's complete energy storage space capacity to 750 MW/3,000 MWh, the biggest of its kind on the planet:

• Moss Landing-- Phase I (300 MW/1,200 MWh).
• Moss Landing-- Phase II (100 MW/400 MWh).
• Moss Landing-- Phase III (350 MW/1,400 MWh).

Morgan continued, "With this organized expansion, we are moving the Moss Landing site closer to its full capacity. With added phases, this project could eventually get to 1,500 MW-- adequate to power around 1.125 million houses throughout the state of California with emission-free electricity. Vistra is dedicated, through our Vistra Zero portfolio, to transitioning the business to attend to climate adjustment-- as well as our Moss Landing site is a beaming instance of the pivot of our generation fleet toward carbon-free innovations.".

Pending the invoice of CPUC authorization, Vistra prepares for building and construction on the 3rd phase of the Moss Landing battery energy storage project will certainly commence in May 2022 and will start industrial procedures prior to June 2023.

With a durable pipe of projects, Vistra plans to grow its zero-carbon Vistra Zero portfolio to 7,300 MW by 2026. This consists of 5,000 MW of renewables as well as energy storage and the business's 2,300-MW emission-free nuclear facility, Comanche Peak. Along with its California projects, the company presently has six solar setups as well as 11 other storage and also solar-plus-storage facilities, all in various stages of growth and operations in Texas as well as Illinois. Ahead of this summer, Vistra will bring online its 50-MW Brightside Solar Facility, the 108-MW Emerald Green Grove Solar Facility, as well as the 260-MW DeCordova Energy Storage Facility-- all in the Texas ERCOT market.