January 12, 2023: A brand new initiative utilizing residential photo voltaic and battery storage programs to create a digital energy plant has been launched in California, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the non-profit electrical utility firm Swell Vitality introduced on December 22.
The VPP goals to enhance the reliability of vitality provide and can initially present the district with 10MW/20MWh of renewable capability by recruiting, putting in and aggregating capability from battery storage programs to prospects within the utility service space.
Nonetheless, the undertaking might be scaled as much as 27MW/54MWh.
The initiative ought to begin working in April, with contract functionality based mostly on two-hour supply capability.
About 600 SMUD prospects have already got residence vitality storage programs, with an extra 400 termination interconnections and “hundreds extra” deliberate within the subsequent few years, in response to the district.
SMUD chief zero carbon officer Lora Anguay stated: “As extra prospects add photo voltaic panel programs paired with battery storage options, they’re higher in a position to handle their very own vitality wants whereas producing make significant contributions to lowering their neighborhood’s carbon footprint.”
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