https://grist.org/energy/ev-batteries-stationary-storage/
"On a 20-acre parcel outside the tiny Southern California town of New Cuyama, a
1.5-megawatt solar farm uses the sun’s rays to slowly charge nearly 600
batteries in nearby cabinets. At night, when energy demand rises, that
electricity is sent to the grid to power homes with clean energy.
To make renewable energy from intermittent sources like solar and wind
available when it is most needed, it’s becoming more common to use batteries to
store the power as it’s generated and transmit it later. But one thing about
the Cuyama facility, which began operations this week, is less common: The
batteries sending energy to the grid once powered electric vehicles.
The SEPV Cuyama facility, located about two hours northeast of Santa Barbara,
is the second hybrid storage facility opened by B2U Storage Solutions. Its
first facility, just outside Los Angeles, uses 1,300 retired batteries from
Honda Clarity and Nissan Leaf EVs to store 28 megawatt-hours of power, enough
to power about 9,500 homes.
The facilities are meant to prove the feasibility of giving EV batteries a
second life as stationary storage before they are recycled. Doing so could
increase the sustainability of the technology’s supply chain and reduce the
need to mine critical minerals, while providing a cheaper way of building out
grid-scale storage.
“This is what’s needed at massive scale,” said Freeman Hall, CEO of the Los
Angeles-based large-scale storage system company."
Via Whuffo, who wrote "This is the way." and Kenny Chaffin.
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