Monday morning Vistra Corp announced its battery energy storage facility is officially online. It has the ability to instantly release energy to the power grid.
As the long hot summer months inch closer, the conversation about energy reliability and the power grid continues to be at the forefront of many Texans’ minds. There’s a new battery energy storage facility in North Texas that is being touted as part of the solution to help minimize disruptions in electricity when the demand gets high.
Located at the DeCordova Energy Storage Facility in Granbury, the 3,000 individual battery modules stored in 86 containers can hold 260-megawatts, which can power about 130,000 Texas residences during normal grid conditions.
The Lithium-ion system stores excess electricity from the grid and can also release the energy when demand is high.
“With these batteries, they…