Tag: grid scale
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Salt River Project connects 25 MW energy storage facility to Arizona grid
Arizona-based municipal utility Salt River Project connected its largest battery storage facility into the grid this month. SRP has placed the 25-MW energy storage facility into service at its Bolster Substation, which is adjacent to the gas-fired Agua Fria Generating Station. The fully charged battery site can power about 5,600 homes for close to four…
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Update on non-Tesla DC fast charging station density in North America
In 2018’s fall I published a article rank states and states by their own DC fast-charging station density relative to population. The Guide, California Lags at DC Fast-Charging Station Density for Electric Vehicles, was based on information from the Alternative Fuels Data Center. The question was the way to compare the progress toward enlarging the EV charging…
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Big batteries are all the rage, but this one’s 16 years old
David R. Baker, Bloomberg New York City dove headlong to build bigger and bigger batteries as regulators approved plans for a system on the East River in Queens. But for all those keeping score, even the largest of America has been on the job for almost 16 years in a far more distant corner of America:…