ENGIE’s 100 MW Solar Valley Battery Storage challenge in Hill County, Texas has been commissioned.
The challenge is likely one of the firm’s largest utility scale storage services within the U.S. thus far. It’s co-located with the corporate’s present 250 MW Solar Valley Photo voltaic challenge, which commenced operation final 12 months.
“We’ve greater than 2 GW of vitality storage already underneath building in Texas and different states anticipated to be commissioned by finish of 2024,” says Dave Carroll, chief renewables officer of ENGIE North America. “Collectively, these tasks will contribute to ENGIE’s international aspiration of 10 GW of vitality storage put in by 2030.”
The storage system can dispatch electrical energy into the grid when wanted, together with the power to satisfy peak hour electrical wants of some 10,000 common houses, says the corporate. The system might be charged each from the co-located photo voltaic facility in addition to from the broader grid.
The Solar Valley Storage challenge includes 308 battery cupboards and concerned greater than 3,500 workdays to assemble, together with each native and regional expert employees.
