Starting with the launch of the state’s first California’s Community Choice Aggregator (CCA), Marin Clean Energy in 2010, CCAs have led the way on integrating renewable sources into the state’s energy supply mix.
With energy storage becoming the conduit through which more renewable energy is getting to the grid during peak times when it’s needed, three recently-announced projects across several CCA territories exemplify the different ways battery energy storage systems (BESS) are changing the grid for the better.
The first of these is the Tumbleweed Energy Storage facility in Kern County, California, the state’s first 8-hour BESS, which will serve eight CCA organizations throughout northern California. The second is a new 4 MW solar and 16 MWh solar plus storage facility built for the Sonoma Clean Power CCA. The third is the latest virtual power plant (VPP) managed by Lunar Energy on behalf of Central Coast Community Energy (3CE)…