BrightSource Strikes World's Biggest Solar Energy Storage Deal
BrightSource Energy said Monday that it has struck a understanding large to add energy storage systems to three massive solar thermal power plants it will build to supply electricity to utility Southern California Edison .
Energy storage will concede the plants to operate into the night, meaning that BrightSource can now forgo building one 200-megawatt solar station that hitherto was needed to meet its obligation to generate 4 million megawatt-hours of electricity annually for the utility.
“It’s a elephantine advantage,” John Woolard, BrightSource’s chief executive, said in an interview Monday. “We came out very strongly with what I take it is the largest solar storage deal in the world.”
BrightSource spokesman Keely Wachs said in an e-mail that only six of the seven planned solar “power rise” stations will need to be built, saving some 1,280 acres of desert land. If approved by glory regulators, the amended contracts with Southern California Edison will also result in lower costs for utility customers, the circle said.
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