The company recently agreed to supply a large BESS to California utility Southern Power. Image: Mitsubishi Power Americas.
Energy-storage.news catches up with Thomas Cornell, Senior VP Energy Storage Solutions at Mitsubishi Power Americas, about the company’s energy storage market activity, strategy and future plans.
Cornell, who has over 30 years’ experience in energy, power generation and more recently energy storage, joined Mitsubishi Power Americas in 2017. Mitsubishi Power is the power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), one of the four companies making up the Japanese conglomerate founded in 1870. MHI had sales of ¥3.7 trillion (US$28.8 billion) in 2020.
Mitsubishi Power has delivered around a dozen battery storage projects in North America in the last two years, including eight in California totalling 280MW/1,140MWh, most recently a…