California Rushes to Add Battery Capacity, Hopes to Avoid Last Year’s Blackouts
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California is adding batteries to its electrical grid at a frantic pace: the state is said to be adding 1,700 megawatts of new battery capacity to the grid this year, in the hopes of avoiding a repeat of last summer’s rolling blackouts, BloombergNEF reports. To put it in perspective: that’s more battery capacity than all of China.
Bloomberg says the state’s massive battery movement will be the “biggest test yet of whether batteries are reliable enough to sustain a grid largely powered by renewables.” California has a goal of reaching 100% renewable power by 2045.
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Google, Others Exhort Biden Administration to Adopt ‘Higher Impact’ Procurement Strategies
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Google, Adobe, Trane Technologies, and Hewlett-Packard joined with a number of environmental groups to send a letter to President Joe Biden, urging his administration to adopt “higher-impact carbon-free federal electricity procurement,” as opposed to traditional clean energy procurement.
The letter points out that such a move aligns with the president’s goal stated in the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad of using the Federal government procurement system to drive towards 100% clean energy. Biden’s January 27 executive order included a directive to the heads of government agencies to identify opportunities for Federal funding to spur commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies and infrastructure. The Federal government spends $500 billion every year on electricity procurement, but only 8% to 9% of the feder
California to Test Whether Big Batteries Can Stop Summer Blackouts
Bloomberg 1 hr ago David R Baker
(Bloomberg) With summer’s heat approaching, California’s plan for avoiding a repeat of last year’s blackouts hinges on a humble savior – the battery.
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Giant versions of the same technology that powers smart phones and cars are being plugged into the state’s electrical grid at breakneck speed, with California set to add more battery capacity this year than all of China, according to BloombergNEF.
It will be the biggest test yet of whether batteries are reliable enough to sustain a grid largely powered by renewables. Last year, when the worst heat wave in a generation taxed California’s power system and plunged millions into darkness in the first rolling blackouts since the Enron crisis, many blamed the state’s aggressive clean-energy push and its reliance on solar power. Should a heat wave strike again this summer, it will be up
https://youtu.be/1DFKxoD a3k Scientific American: The energy storage industry is shattering records for battery deployments, underscoring its growing role in decarbonizing the economy.In the last three months of 2020, nearly 2.2 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy storage systems were put into operation, according to the energy data firm Wood Mackenzie. That’s an increase of 182% from the previous…