California's First-in-Nation Energy Storage Mandate
Photo: PG&E
West Coast Wattage: A 2-megawatt,
14 megawatt-hour battery facility in Vacaville, Calif. could help
California meet a new storage mandate.
California has adopted the United States' first energy storage mandate,
requiring the state's three major power companies to have 1325 MW of
electricity storage capacity in place by the end of 2020, and 200 MW by
the end of next year. The new rule issued by the California Public
Utilities Commission (CPUC) will be key to implementation of the state's
ambitious renewable portfolio rules, which calls for 33 percent of
delivered electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020 and
virtually guarantees that California, along with Germany, will remain in
the world vanguard of those aggressively building out wind and solar.http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/californias-firstinnation-energy-storage-mandate
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