Energy Storage News - April 24th, 2020

Posted 27 Apr | Top 5

This week’s TOP 5 talks about NextEra’s record plan for a $1-billion investment in energy storage in a single year, PG&E’s proposal to replace Oakland’s fossil fuel plant with 173 MWh of battery storage in California, the cancellation of Jordan’s notorious energy storage tender, First Solar’s two power purchase agreements with Californian community agencies for a 100 MW solar plus 20 MW storage project and the start of operations at a 10 MW green hydrogen plant in Japan.

 

  1. In a first, NextEra Energy is planning to spend $1 billion on energy storage in 2021.

  2. Pacific Gas & Electric is pushing for 43MW/173MWh of Li-ion battery storage to replace Oakland’s Power Plant.

  3. In an unfortunate turn of events, Jordan’s tender for 30MW/60MWh of energy storage was cancelled.

  4. First Solar’s Rabbitbrush project sealed two power purchase agreements for its 100 MW of solar plus 20 MW of battery storage.

  5. Thought to be the world’s largest ‘single-stack’ green hydrogen electrolyser, Fukushima’s 10 MW project is online.

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