LS Power’s Gateway Energy Storage Project in Southern California initially was built with one hour of capacity. A new project in Kern County, Calif., includes eight hours.
Source: LS Power Group
California Community Power on Jan. 19 unanimously approved an agreement with an affiliate of LS Power Corp. to supply an eight-hour energy storage project relying on lithium-ion batteries, highlighting the technology’s early lead in the Golden State’s search for longer-duration storage assets.
The local government-run agency, formed in 2021 to pool the buying power of 10 community choice aggregators, or CCAs, authorized the 15-year contract for 69 MW/552 MWh of energy storage from LS Power’s Tumbleweed project in Kern County, Calif., beginning in 2024. The seven CCAs participating in the project — the first in their joint request for proposals, or RFP, for 500 MW of…