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canarymedia.com - Utah developer quadruples battery storage to meet new electricity demand[Utility Rocky Mountain Power] asked for more from the Green River project. RPlus complied, and earlier this month, it announced it had amended its contract to include 1,600 megawatt-hours of storage capacity, four times the previously agreed-upon amount.
“This really gives [Rocky Mountain Power parent company] PacifiCorp the ability to have a large dispatchable system. […] It becomes effectively a 400-megawatt peaker plant,” rPlus President Luigi Resta told Canary Media.
“We had always planned on the project being larger — we already had the land,” Resta said.
Crucially, the quadrupling of storage capacity did not trigger any onerous new transmission-grid upgrades, which could have incurred punishing costs and delays.
Electricity demand growth across the country has turned into a “hockey stick going up,” Resta said
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