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Speaking of "Truck loads of Spod" Me thinks someone ( Elon / Tesla etc ) is gonna need a "Bigger Boat" if you get my Drift, like a "DRC Ship Load" sooner or later, Not just for all those Growing Gigafactories with Growing Pains, but Storage atm, as


Tesla, PG&E break ground on 'landmark' energy storage facility

Tesla Inc. and PG&Electric Corp. broke ground last week on a lithium-ion battery energy storage system at a PG&E electric substation in the central coast of California, the companies said in a statement that called the facility a "landmark"

The system will be designed, constructed, and maintained by both companies, and owned and operated by PG&E, they said.

Construction is expected to continue into early next year, with the goal of having it energized in early 2021 and fully operational in the second quarter of 2021.

"Once operational, the Moss Landing substation will be one of the largest utility-owned, lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in the world"

Stationary energy-storage systems help smooth out electric-grid peaks and valleys and make the grid more reliable.

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California utility PG&E breaks ground on 730MWh Moss Landing battery project

The Moss Landing project, which is being built using battery storage equipment supplied by Tesla, is the second largest of those four, with another 300MW / 1,200MWh on its way from integrated energy company Vistra Energy and its subsidiary Dynegy.

Tesla and PG&E will design, construct and maintain the Moss Landing substation project, scheduled for completion in early 2021 and to reach full operation by the second quarter of next year. PG&E expects the BESS to save over US$100 million over its 20-year lifetime, as it helps the utility meet local capacity requirements and mitigate energy procurement costs.

The system, which will use 256 units of Tesla’s Megapack 3MWh battery storage systems which came onto the market last year.

PG&E and Tesla have an agreement in place that means the system’s capacity could be increased to as much as 1.1GWh in total - six hours' storage duration at the same rated output.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas awarded 20MW / 80MWh project to be used in 'multiyear study' in Orange County

Also announced this week in California was the award of a 20MW / 80MWh battery storage project by development company Hecate Grid to technology provider Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPS).

Hecate Grid, a joint venture to develop, own and operate energy storage systems formed by developer Hecate Energy and investor InfraRed Capital Partners, has contracted MHPS to supply full design and turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for Johanna Energy Storage System (ESS), in Santa Ana, Orange County, California.

The project will actually be split across two systems at nearby locations.

MHPS will provide the complete BESS solution including battery management system (BMS) and energy dispatch management system for the project, using lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.

Johanna ESS is scheduled to come online by the end of this year.


PG&E, Tesla start building world’s biggest battery

The 182.5 MW/730 MWh Moss Landing energy storage system could eventually be expanded to 1.1 GWh – putting it on track to overshadow Tesla’s massive Hornsdale project in Australia.

Tesla currently has an impressive hold on the world’s largest energy storage projects.

PG&E also has third-party contracts for a 75 MW transmission-connected project near Morgan Hill, in California, as well as a 2 MW project at the Gonzales substation in the Salinas Valley.

In addition, the utility owns a 20 MW battery system at the Llagas substation in Gilroy, also in California.

As familiar as the power company is with large scale battery energy storage projects, Tesla may be even more so.

The world’s largest operating battery storage system, the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, features batteries made by the electric carmaker and is colloquially known as the Tesla Big Battery.

That project initially had a capacity of 100 MW/129 MWh, but has been expanded and is now rated at 150 MW/193.5 MWh.

If the Moss Landing battery project is completed on time, the two largest lithium-ion storage projects on the planet will use Tesla batteries – and it’s not like the competition is particularly close, either.



As much disparity as there is on the list of biggest systems above, it’s set to look entirely different in just a short time.

In addition to the Moss Landing project, there are multiple 100 MW storage facilities being developed across the United States.

There is also a project that will blow even the second Moss Landing installation out of the water – the massive, 409 MW Florida Power and Light Manatee project.

www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2020/07/30/pge-tesla-start-building-worlds-biggest-battery/


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