LS Energy Solutions has commenced industrial operations on the Massive Rock vitality storage website in Imperial County, California. The 200-MW/400-MWh challenge, developed and operated in partnership with Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), is now offering useful resource adequacy (RA) and ancillary companies for the California Impartial System Operator (CAISO) electrical grid.
200-MW/400-MWh Massive Rock vitality storage website in California. Credit score: LS Power Options
“We’re thrilled to see the Massive Rock website in full industrial operation and offering storage companies for CAISO,” mentioned Curt Feldman, Vice President at LS Power Options. “As California’s grid faces challenges from knowledge heart progress, wildfires, and the necessity to meet carbon discount targets, utility-scale storage like Massive Rock is extra essential than ever. Gore Avenue Power Storage Fund has been a superb accomplice for this challenge, and we sit up for working with them on future CAISO tasks.”
The Massive Rock website contains 137 LS-ES AiON-ESS containers storing vitality for two-hour durations. LS-ES and GSF at present function the location at 100 MW of deliverability to produce 400 MWh to CAISO and meet the four-hour discharge stipulation of a 12-year RA contract. Along with supplying AiON-ESS containers, LS-ES can be supporting the location with operational companies that embrace preventative and capability upkeep, an prolonged guarantee and system distant monitoring for the lifetime of the challenge.
GSF acquired the Massive Rock website in February 2023 from clear vitality developer Avantus, and it marks the developer’s first challenge for CAISO.
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