Slate, a recently-completed large-scale California solar-plus-storage project. Image: Goldman Sachs Renewable Power.
Battery storage will be a valuable asset for enhancing and upgrading the electric transmission and distribution (T&D) system of California.
The board of CAISO last week approved the California grid operator’s 10-Year Transmission Plan, which will upgrade the network and make it better able to accommodate renewable energy.
As reported by our sister site PV Tech, resource requirements for decarbonising California’s energy system by 2045 and enhancing reliability of the electricity network demand significant increases in the amount of battery storage and different renewable energy technologies.
Identifying 23 separate transmission projects representing about US$2.9 billion of investment in expansion, upgrade and reinforcement, the transmission…