California officials on Thursday celebrated a milestone in their goal of achieving a 100 percent clean power grid by 2045, the goal of installing more than 10,000 megawatts of battery storage.
“Battery storage is fundamental,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said at a news conference. Press conference It is located next to a battery and solar energy facility in rural Yolo County in the western Sacramento Valley.
“In fact, the surplus electricity is being sent to other states and obviously used for more battery storage,” the governor added.
in 10,379 megawatts Since 2019, the state has increased battery storage capacity as a percentage of total battery capacity by 1,250 percent from 770 megawatts, Newsom’s office said.
Meanwhile, his office noted that last week, the release of energy from batteries to the grid exceeded 6,000 megawatts for the first time. At the time, batteries were the largest source of power to the grid.
When a reporter asked if this accomplishment could end California’s power outages, Newsom quickly turned his attention to Texas, where the unpredictable nature of oil and gas and extreme weather conditions could lead to isolated states. He described the power outage problem in Seongju as “serious.”
“This is California’s largest power source, much larger than California’s last remaining nuclear power plant,” Newsom said.
“No, we’re not announcing today that power outages are part of the past, but we want to do everything we can to alleviate them,” the governor added, adding that every September He characterized it as a “period of anxiety.”
“But storage saved us last year,” he added. “This will be a big part of the solution going forward.”
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