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Construction completed on 700 MW battery storage facility in California

Construction completed on 700 MW battery storage facility in California
NextEra Energy Resource's Desert Peak Energy Center in Palm Springs, CA. (Courtesy: NextEra Energy Resources)

Construction is complete on the 700MW Desert Peak Energy Center storage facility in Palm Springs, CA, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, in what the company is calling the world’s largest battery storage facility.

The 78-acre facility includes around 728 battery containers, with two externally-mounted air-conditioning units on each container, according to CA officials. Phase 1 of the project added 300 MW of storage capacity, and phase 2 added 400 MW. Additionally, the facility includes an on-site substation, inverters, and a supervisory control and data acquisition system.

A 230 kV overhead generation tie line was installed to carry the load from the project’s substation to the South California Edison Devers substation, extending about half a mile to the west of the facility.

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