Kern County has become the renewable energy hub of California and key to our state achieving its clean energy goals. Long a producer of power from wind, it has recently added large-scale solar projects. Although Kern County sends renewable energy all over the state, the bulk of this energy goes to L.A.’s homes and businesses. One farm, Eland, when fully online, will produce 7 percent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (DWP) electricity. Eland would not be remarkable if only a solar farm, but it is linked with lithium-ion battery storage banks – 172 Tesla megapacks, capable of delivering 300 megawatts for peak use after sunset.