California

“Storage is critical for equity,” says Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich — and putting more standalone storage on the grid means less electricity going through wires in wildfire-prone areas.

Also in the brief: Global Energy Generation’ proposed 4,500-acre Mammoth Solar project in Pulaski County, Indiana, may have a role to play in Winamac’s revitalization efforts, Dominion Energy acquired a solar power project in Orange County, the laws that prevent carbon cutting and more.

As California’s energy crisis rages, one company has been paying customers handsomely to to power down in times of peak strain on the grid.

Also in the brief: Western Australia’s largest operating solar project, California’s recent grid woes

Bill Conlon, founder of Pintail Power, believes hybridizing the existing gas turbine fleet with long-duration molten salt storage can help balance today’s complex grid and absorb more now-curtailed solar.

It’s a title that is becoming more contentious by the day, but for the time being, LS Power’s 250 MW Gateway project in San Diego, California is the biggest battery in the world.

Also in the brief: CATL aims for EV batteries free of cobalt or nickel, rolling blackouts in California stump power experts, record U.S. wind installations

In order to prevent more of California’s grid emergencies, what’s needed is more solar-charged batteries, not more peaker plants

Also in the brief: Capacity deferral is the primary source of storage value, Trump administration ‘to lead the world’ in energy storage

A permit to expand Vistra’s natural gas-fired Moss Landing generation station in Monterey County, California to 1,500 MW/6,000 MWh has been approved, setting the stage for the world to see gigawatt-scale battery energy storage for the first time ever.