$380,000,000.008 Nov 2022 15:06
Thought this was worth putting out again with a new heading
The CEC’s grant is the first of some US$380 million that California will put towards long duration energy storage technologies in the state, starting with US$140 million in fiscal year 2022-23. Christina Snider, Tribal Affairs Secretary to Governor Gavin Newsom who announced the funding, said the Viejas grant was most likely the largest awarded to a tribe in the US, ever.
Invinity Energy Systems and Eos Energy Enterprises are providing long duration energy storage systems to the ‘biggest renewables microgrid project in the US’, being developed for the Viejas Tribe of Kumeyaay Indians in Southern California.
“As the Tribe is located at the end of a power line the quality can also be an issue, which can have huge impact on the local economy. The microgrid platform is designed to be able to dynamically load follow.”
Asked why Indian Energy opted for non-lithium technologies, Cadreau added: “Lithium-ion is wonderful but it’s just not utility scale capable. We knew from the beginning that it was not going to be capable of doing the heavy lifting we want it to.”
https://www.energy-storage.news/eos-and-invinity-supplying-battery-systems-to-cec-funded-biggest-renewables-microgrid-in-us/