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I simply wrote about how battery power storage is massively serving to to increase the usefulness of photo voltaic power into the night in California. It’s shortly reworking the California electrical energy grid. Then I noticed this information from ENGIE, because of one in every of our content material curators. ENGIE has now reached greater than 1.8 gigawatts (GW) of put in battery power storage system (BESS) capability in the USA, and 1 GW of that was simply added since January 2024! (Aspect notice: ENGIE makes use of the time period GW, which refers to energy storage capability, all through the information launch … besides in a single place, the place the corporate says “The ENGIE portfolio of BESS provides dispatchable energy, which in total is now capable of providing around 1.8 GWh across the combination of ERCOT and CAISO – ready to dispatch at a moment’s notice.” So, it’s not clear what the case is right here — the corporate might have each 1.8 GW and 1.8 GWh of BESS capability put in, or it might be referring to a type of with the mistaken metric in some locations. I’m going to imagine the previous.)

California isn’t mentioned or highlighted a lot right here, however ENGIE have to be enjoying a task and does point out CAISO (the California Unbiased System Operator) briefly. The opposite big state working quickly to combine renewables into the grid is highlighted, although. That will be Texas. “With 24 projects now operating across the U.S., of which 6 were commissioned this year, ENGIE is among the largest operators of BESS in the country, and one of the largest independent operators of batteries supporting the ERCOT system in Texas,” the corporate writes.

“This new milestone strengthens ENGIE’s position as a leader of the energy transition in the United States, where the Group already has significant footprints through its renewable assets and its energy management platform,” ENGIE notes.
“The growth in ENGIE’s BESS fleet was accelerated by the pivotal acquisition of industry leader Broad Reach Power (BRP) in August 2023. The successful integration of BRP has not only added to ENGIE’s existing portfolio of development projects, but critically included industry leading solutions, expertise and experience. ENGIE now brings increased flexibility to the grid, allowing a better integration of renewable energies and thus contributes to speed up the energy transition.”

That is going to be the story increasingly in Texas, as in California, and naturally in different markets across the nation and the world as they add extra renewable power to the grid. The BESS market goes to utterly explode within the coming decade or two. ENGIE is actually nicely geared up to revenue from that.

“We are extremely proud of the delivery of so many battery projects over the past year, enabling ENGIE to play a leading role in adding storage and other ancillary services to the grid in a material way” mentioned David Carroll, Chief Renewables Officer and Senior VP, ENGIE North America. “Storage and other services are critical additions to support grid reliability. I’m honored that on a number of occasions this summer, ENGIE has been one of the largest contributors of storage dispatch into the ERCOT system for example – helping to balance the grid at some of the most critical moments.”

The corporate has been putting in each standalone tasks and tasks co-located with photo voltaic PV energy vegetation. The tasks additionally cowl a variety of sizes — from 10 MW to 200 MW in energy capability (once more, the corporate doesn’t point out power storage capability right here, solely energy capability). The biggest solar energy challenge ENGIE’s storage programs are related to is the 320 MW “Five Wells” solar energy plant in Bell County, TX.

ENGIE has additionally been creating photo voltaic and wind power energy vegetation for years. The corporate has 8 GW of photo voltaic and wind energy tasks in operation or in building throughout North America.

Featured picture courtesy of ENGIE.