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"The largest combined solar and energy-storage project in the U.S. is now
online and operating in California’s Mojave Desert.
The sprawling megaproject stretches across 4,600 acres in Kern County and is
located on private land as well as the Edwards Air Force Base. It’s the biggest
public-private partnership the U.S. Air Force has ever been involved in.
Known as the Edwards & Sanborn project, it was developed by Terra-Gen and built
by Mortenson, an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor.
Construction started in the first quarter of 2021 and completion was announced
last week. The project includes an astonishing 1.9 million modules from
panel-maker First Solar, and 120,720 batteries from LG Chem, Samsung and BYD —
which makes it the largest such project in the U.S., according to Mortenson.
The equipment is connected with more than 400 miles of wire, according to Brent
Bergland, Mortenson’s VP of project development.
As solar makes up a bigger and bigger share of grid power, battery storage is
needed to soak up surplus daytime energy and make it available for use later in
the day. That’s why solar facilities are increasingly co-located with battery
plants: Photovoltaics plus storage is the leading hybrid renewables
combination.
This particular project has a generating capacity of 875 megawatts from solar
along with 3,287 megawatt-hours of energy storage."
Via
Future Crunch:
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
