A Megabattery Boom Is Coming to Rescue Overloaded Power Grids

摘要

The world’s overloaded power grids are on the cusp of a megabattery boom. California, keen toavoid last year’s blackouts, could add more than 2 gigawatts of energy storage, including frombatteries, by summer. The frenzied rush to claim the title of “biggest battery” started in 2017, whenTesla Inc. and French renewable energy company Neoen SA installed the first 100-megawattlithium-ion storage project in Australia. As systems get bigger, they can store and dispatch moreenergy. That’s seen the titleholder changing frequently-leading to Vistra Corp.’s 300MW MossLanding project in California claiming the current top spot.