Two New Projects Add 1.35 GW of Solar-Battery Capacity to California Grid

Energy developer Arevon Power Inc. is betting large on renewable power and battery storage in southern California, beginning and finishing building this month on two initiatives totaling 1.35 GW of capability and $2.6 billion of funding—together with one of many largest such mixed installations within the U.S.

The corporate has launched work on the 300-MW/1,200-MWhour Nighthawk Power Storage Challenge, a lithium iron phosphate battery storage system to serve Pacific Gasoline and Electrical Co. prospects within the San Diego metro space. San Jose builder Rosendin is EPC contractor for the estimated $600-million mission set to function subsequent 12 months that can hyperlink photo voltaic and wind power to a substation on the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar base, Arevon stated. 

Development is anticipated to make use of greater than 130 employees at peak, it added. 

“Nighthawk and different utility-scale battery programs permit electrical energy to be saved throughout low demand durations after which effectively discharged onto the grid, responding shortly at excessive demand and very important durations,” stated an Arevon spokesman. 

With its begin coming six months after a $400-million hearth at Vistra Power’s Moss Touchdown battery array close to Monterey, Arevon CEO Kevin Smith stated Nighthawk’s mission design consists of added security measures “and can comprise the most secure and most superior batteries available on the market.” 

Arevon has partnered with the Poway, Calif., Fireplace Dept. to develop a fireplace prevention and response plan and supply coaching particular to the Tesla battery packs for use. Fisher Engineering is offering third-party hearth safety engineering evaluation. The union-built mission, first introduced in 2021, is absolutely permitted and qualifies for home content material tax credit obtainable below the Inflation Discount Act, Arevon stated. 

Photo voltaic-Battery Big

Additionally no beginning operation is the finishing part of Arevon’s record-setting $2-billion Eland Photo voltaic-plus-Storage Challenge in Kern County, 80 miles north of Los Angeles. Largest to be in-built California and among the many largest throughout the nation, It combines 758 MW of photo voltaic power with 300 MW/1,200 MWh of lithium iron phosphate battery storage. Builder SOLV Power has been EPC contractor for the two-phase mission. 

With 1.36 million photo voltaic panels and 172 batteries, Eland is about to produce 7% of Los Angeles energy below long-term agreements with the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Energy and Glendale Water and Energy Dept. The previous has dedicated to a 25-year contract for Eland energy, which the LA Occasions stated is valued at $1.5 billion and gives it an choice to purchase the generator outright, probably after a decade of operation

Janisse Quiñones, the LA energy company CEO and chief engineer, stated Eland will increase metropolis clear power provide to 64%, with a purpose of 100% by 2035. It “marks an necessary step ahead in our power transition and dedication,” she said, including that it’s the division’s largest solar-battery storage mixed mission.

Arevon stated it owns and operates greater than 4.7 GW of photo voltaic and power storage initiatives in 17 states, together with 3.2 MW in California, and is constructing 1.5 GW extra of recent capability.

California already has essentially the most utility-scale battery storage programs nationwide however it’s set for a brand new file, with building to begin this 12 months on what developer Intersect Energy stated would be the world’s largest solar and battery storage project in western Fresno County.