Pacific Gas and Electric Company has filed for approval with the state regulator energy storage projects totalling 567MW in California’s northern Central Valley.
PG&E selected one offer for a utility-owned project and three offers for third-party owned projects after launching an accelerated solicitation in January.
The proposed utility-owned project is a 182.5MW lithium-ion battery energy storage system located within PG&E’s Moss Landing substation to be developed with Tesla
The third-party owned projects are also lithium-ion battery facilities.
They comprise Micronoc’s 10MW aggregation of behind-the-meter batteries located at customer sites and interconnected to local substations, Hummingbird Energy Storage’s 75MW project near the city of Morgan Hill and the 300MW Vistra Moss Landing facility .
If approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, the first of PG&E’s proposed projects is scheduled to go online by the end of 2019, with the other projects to follow by the end of 2020.
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