The nearly $1 billion plant will be able to provide electricity to up to 400,000 homes by storing renewable energy as compressed air.
By Kevin Winter
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Energy storage facilities will be an important asset to help decarbonize the electrical grid and the California Energy Commission took a step forward Wednesday by ordering staff to begin the process of certifying a compressed-air energy storage facility in Kern County. Once built it will be one of the largest in the world.
The facility is being built by Hydrostor, a Canada based renewable energy company that develops energy storage systems around the world, and will be called the Gem Energy Storage Facility. The proposed facility would be able to store up to 500 megawatts of compressed air, to be used during peak load times when renewable energy systems are not able to meet demand.
Gem will be built in…
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