Sacramento leaders gathered Wednesday to celebrate the announcement that Peak Energy will build a new sodium-ion grid storage facility in Sacramento’s Metro Air Park.
Peak Energy calls it a first-of-its-kind facility in the nation that will pave the future for low-cost, giga-scale grid storage, which will produce enough energy annually to power four million homes and foster grid resilience.
“We’re launching our first giga-factory here. We’ll be producing four gigawatt hours of large-scale grid batteries here every year, which will be deployed into the electricity system not only here in Sacramento with SMUD, but all over the country,” said co-founder Cameron Dales…