tesla battery contract shows how socal edison is ramping up electricity storage - home battery system
Tesla announced on Thursday that it was selected by Southern California Edison to build a battery project at the utility's Mira Roman substation, which will have the maximum production of existing lithium
Ion storage facilities
Tesla's large battery system is expected to go online in December.
Tesla said it will store 80 megawatts of energy on the 31st, enough to power more than 2,500 households a day.
The battery system is designed to improve the reliability of the grid, charging from it when power is off
Power customers during peak hours.
According to order No. 2013 of the state utilities commission, Edison and other utilities in California installed 1.
Storage capacity is 3 gigawatts by 2020.
One thousand MW is equivalent to 1,000 MW.
Paul Grimo, spokesman for Edison, said the company had completed 2016 targets ahead of schedule.
While energy storage costs are a factor in the wider use of the technology, Tesla's project meets the requirements of national regulators for competitive prices, he said.
"Just like renewable resources, we expect the cost of energy storage to drop over time," Grimo said . ".
Projects already under development will be five times as high as Tesla's. AES Corp.
Is building a 100-
Megawatt system located in the power center of Alamitos in Long Beach.
In 2014, Edison announced the opening of its Tehachapi energy storage facility, the largest storage building in North America at the time.
The Tesla project will be more than double the size of the Tehachapi factory.
"Accounting for the merger of power and duration ,[Tesla]
This will be the largest one at the moment, "said Matt Roberts, spokesman for the Energy Storage Association.
But Roberts said the AES project "is the largest lithium system ever announced and will be completed in the next few years.
"Tesla responded to Edison's proposal to build more power storage to complement the natural gas storage facility in the ARSO Canyon, which leaked last fall and has now been discontinued.
The Aliso Canyon plant is the largest storage facility in the state.
Southern California Natural Gas said the storage facility is necessary to ensure adequate supply of natural gas to southern California power plants, homes and businesses.
Bill Bowles in San Diego
In public hearings and reports, Powers Engineering did not believe that Aliso Canyon was required.
Mr. Bowles said Tesla's battery project emphasized that there are other solutions to meet the energy needs of Southern California people.
"This is good news, it is developing rapidly --
Power said he added that installing batteries in substations such as the Mira Roman facility in Edison would make it easier to transport large batteries
Extended battery storage.
"It's not cutting-edge technology," Bowles said, "but it's the easiest way to do a battery. "ivan. penn@latimes.
Update: page 2: 20. m.
: This article updates the comments of Paul Grimo, spokesman for Southern California Edison. 1:35p. m.
: More details and analysis have been updated in this article.
The article was originally published at 10: 25. m.