California Flats is a 2900 acre plot of land in central California that is coated in photo voltaic panels. The additional power generated from all that photo voltaic flows straight into batteries proper on web site.
Hearst Company, California Flats Photo voltaic-plus-Storage Challenge
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Hearst Company, California Flats Photo voltaic-plus-Storage Challenge
California Flats is a 2900 acre plot of land in central California that is coated in photo voltaic panels. The additional power generated from all that photo voltaic flows straight into batteries proper on web site.
Hearst Company, California Flats Photo voltaic-plus-Storage Challenge
Batteries are in all places. They’re in our telephones, our distant controls, smart-watches, electrical vehicles and a lot extra. They is also the answer to an issue that renewable power firms have confronted for years: The best way to retailer the mass quantities of power they produce for later use.
Renewable power has traditionally been on the whim of the climate. Solar energy depends on solar publicity, and wind energy requires the wind to blow. In the end, they’re considerably ephemeral. However what if firms might faucet into all that power they’re harnessing every time they want it?
Enter batteries.
In California, there’s now sufficient grid-scale battery storage to energy hundreds of thousands of properties for a couple of hours. Battery energy is commonly the second largest supply of power on a given day within the state. So, we’re digging into the fast-growing expertise with The Indicator from Planet Cash producer Cooper Katz McKim, who developed a three-part collection on the expertise.
Hearken to the three-part battery series.
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This episode was produced by Rachel Carlson, edited by Rebecca Ramirez and truth checked by Tyler Jones. The audio engineer was Kwesi Lee.
