California energy storage project heralded


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SCPPA Ice Energy Storage Project shifts 64 GWh from peak to off-peak using distributed energy storage and thermal AC, cutting peak demand, boosting grid reliability, and delivering smart grid benefits across Southern California utilities.

 

What You Need to Know

A 53 MW thermal storage program shifting 64 GWh off-peak yearly to cut AC-driven peaks and improve grid reliability.

  • 53 MW distributed thermal energy storage for air conditioning
  • Shifts 64 GWh of on-peak load to off-peak periods annually
  • Offsets peak demand equal to serving about 10,000 homes

 

The Southern California Public Power Authority says it plans to create the nation's first cost-effective, utility-scale, distributed energy storage project.

 

Officials said the 53 megawatt project, to be built in collaboration with the Ice Energy Corp., will be designed to help permanently reduce peak electrical demand by shifting as much as 64 gigawatt hours of on-peak electrical consumption to off-peak periods every year, a strategy aligned with the benefits of energy storage discussed by utilities, reducing exposure to costly peak power and improving the reliability of the electrical grid with advances in grid battery technology seen recently.

"By using storage to change how - and more importantly when - energy is consumed by air conditioning, and building on the DOE energy storage grant supporting innovation, we can offset enough peak demand in the region to serve the equivalent of 10,000 homes, said Bill Carnahan, executive director of SCPPA, with initiatives like the CEC long-duration storage project informing regional planning, which deliver electricity to approximately 2 million customers in such California cities as Anaheim, Azusa, Banning, Burbank, Cerritos, Colton, Glendale, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Riverside and Vernon, as well as the Imperial Irrigation District.

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