Summary: Your author has deep experience working with the California Energy Commission (CEC) on innovative grid resource programs. This experience started when I worked for Comverge in the early 2000s. On their website the CEC describes their mission as “As the state's primary energy policy and planning agency, the Energy Commission plays a critical role in creating the energy system of the future - one that is clean, is modern, and ensures the fourth largest economy in the world continues to thrive.” My earlier experience was on their demand response programs, and I participated in CEC’s Demand Response Working Group 3 (WG3).
The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved the Darden Clean Energy Project, the first to be fast tracked under its Opt-In Certification program.
The CEC said that this battery storage project is destined to be the largest in world. An up to 4,600 MW-hr. battery energy storage system (BESS) will be paired with a solar installation of 300 million solar modules providing 1.1 GW of solar, it will generate enough electricity to power 850,000 homes for four hours.
This post is about California’s future renewable and energy storage projects.
