Portland General Electric, the utility that serves Portland, Oregon, plans to announce Friday it is putting in the second-largest battery storage installation in the United States, 400 MW of power
An employee works at a battery energy storage facility in Saginaw, Texas, April 25, 2023, that is owned and operated by Eolian L.P. Eolian will begin construction later this year in Portland, Ore., on projects to serve Portland General Electric, the utility that serves metropolitan Portland, the largest battery procurement of their kind outside California.
“Although we are a small utility, I like to think we punch above our weight,” said Brett Greene, PGE’s senior director, calling it an important step towards reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2030.because they supply electricity during times of low sunlight and wind, and can also prevent blackouts when demand for electricity surges, such as heat waves.
Batteries also help the grid cope with “rush hour,” when energy usage spikes around 5 p.m. as people come home from work and turn on lights, start cooking and run their air conditioning, explained Jiangbiao He, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Kentucky. He said the current utility-scale battery capacity in the U.S. is around 8 GW but by 2030 that will more than double.
Batteries are becoming cheaper and the U.S. is making more of them, which is why Lenox believes “batteries in the short run, and maybe even in the long run, are going to be the primary sort of solution to the storage problem.”
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