Arevon Energy announced the completion of the two-phase Eland solar-plus-storage project, sited in Kern County, California. The project had capital costs of over $2 billion and is one of the largest solar-plus-storage projects in the United States.
The Eland solar project has a total nameplate capacity of 758 MW of solar paired with a 300 MW, 1,200 MWh battery energy storage system. The project is made of 1.36 million solar panels and 172 containerized lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.
Eland is expected to produce enough electricity to meet about 7% of Los Angeles’ annual demand. It is large enough to power the equivalent of about 266,000 homes annually…