A surge of projects is expected as developers seek to store excess electricity produced by...
Broad Reach / Broad Reach / PHOTO: OilPics.comWASHINGTON — Within three years, a surge of large-scale battery projects is expected to come online on Texas and California power grids as developers seek to store electricity produced by those state’s sprawling wind and solar farms.
As renewable energy has grown over the past decade, natural gas-powered turbines have shouldered a lot of that load. But as lithium-ion battery prices have come down in recent years — at the same time natural gas prices have increased — power utilities are increasingly looking to large batteries to fill the gaps.
But driving investor interest is a state power market in which wind energy in the Panhandle and West Texas frequently exceeds the capacity of transmission lines serving the state’s population centers, he said. If a power company can store electricity in off peak hours and deploy it when demand is at its highest, there is profit to be made.
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