The Edwards Sanborn Solar Storage Facility aims to be the world’s largest solar-plus-storage project. The project is located in Kern County, on land leased from Edwards Air Force Base as well as on adjacent private land. Once built, the project could have a capacity of up to 1,118MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) and 2,165 megawatts
Energy storage facilities are often sited near electrical distribution substations in urban and suburban environments to capitalize on the energy demands in these areas. In such locations, noise-sensitive uses may exist nearby, such as residential neighborhoods, hospitals, churches, and schools. Introduction of a noise generation source, such as an energy storage facility, must take existing
Powin Energy’s 2-megawatt (MW)/8-MW-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) recently went online fewer than six months after the project was awarded, marking an energy industry first for the speed of battery energy storage permitting, manufacturing, installing, and commissioning of an asset of this size on a distribution feeder. Located in Irvine, California, the system provides
