California regulators now propose tighter battery storage safety rules after a blaze earlier this month destroyed most of a 300-MW lithium-ion array at Vistra Energy’s 750-MW Moss Landing storage site at a decommissioned gas power plant near San Jose.
The estimated $70M long-duration battery system, largest at a US Defense Dept. site, will provide backup power at the energy-intensive U.S. Marine Corps base, with 70,000 military and civilian personnel on a 125,000-acre site.
Sunstone Solar is planned with 1.2 GW of generating capacity and up to 7.2 GW of battery energy storage, with contractor SOLVEnergy in talks to build the project.
Form Energy will expand its just completed scaled-up iron-air system factory in West Virginia, also announcing $1.2 billion in firm investments and plans to deploy batteries at commercial scale, with Mortenson as contractor for the first project in Minnesota.
Also—China propelled global tension over growing size of its offshore wind turbines with the late August launch of a 20-MW capacity model in Hainan near Vietnam announced by domestic producer Mingyang Wind Power Group Ltd.
and the firm's plan to build a factory in Italy.
Developer, using Iron-air technology instead of lithium-ion for long-duration storage, will build first state facility at PG&E plant site—as U.S. battery installation set new records in the third quarter and is set to in 2024.
EPC contractor and equity investor Aecon plans to begin construction on the Oneida Battery Storage project this year, following Canada's adoption in March of new clean energy investment credits.
The project will add a total of 199MW of battery-storage capacity at carefully selected sites across the country to improve reliability of public power utility Eskom's transmission grid.