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>One of Arizona’s biggest grid battery storage projects is now online and helping power homes as the summer heat ramps up. Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, just brought its 1,200 MWh Papago Storage facility in Maricopa County into commercial operation. The big grid battery is now supplying stored electricity to Arizona Public Service (APS), the state’s largest utility, in time for peak air-conditioning season. Papago is the first of three Recurrent projects with APS. Together, they’ll provide 1,800 MWh of storage and 150 MW of solar power. That’s enough to run about 72,000 homes for four hours and provide year-round solar for another 24,000 homes.

Archive: https://archive.today/a6BoO From the post: >>One of Arizona’s biggest grid battery storage projects is now online and helping power homes as the summer heat ramps up. Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, just brought its 1,200 MWh Papago Storage facility in Maricopa County into commercial operation. The big grid battery is now supplying stored electricity to Arizona Public Service (APS), the state’s largest utility, in time for peak air-conditioning season. Papago is the first of three Recurrent projects with APS. Together, they’ll provide 1,800 MWh of storage and 150 MW of solar power. That’s enough to run about 72,000 homes for four hours and provide year-round solar for another 24,000 homes.

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I didn't save the article, but there was a good idea from one of the red states. Rather than focusing on the renewable, they're buying a lot of batteries. They charge them overnight with regular gas or nuclear, then use them during the day to handle peak, bringing down overall costs. Also helps with spike demands like the heatwave right now. I'd say that's a way better way to make a "greener" grid than the shit they're throwing at us now

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The world is over populated but acres and acres of aerable land can be used for this sort of rich man's scheme. I wonder what disposal plans are in place and how they will deal with fires or exploding batteries.