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Drama and intrigue in California’s long-duration storage bill

What appears to be an innocuous and neutral bill to promote gigawatts of long-duration energy storage in California is actually alleged to be a Trojan horse for Florida utility NextEra’s pumped hydro plans. And while that long-duration energy storage drama plays out, load-serving entities are not waiting for state regulators – they are starting to procure eight-hour storage on their own.

By

Eric Wesoff

02 Nov 2020

The California Public Utilities Commission. | Image: Tobias Kleinlercher/ Wikipedia

On the surface, California bill AB 2255 aims to develop a process to procure and deploy gigawatts of long-duration energy storage across the state. The bill proposes adopting a new regulatory approach in order to unleash long-term energy storage resources and meet California’s climate goals.While the wording of the bill seems neutral, the bill is …

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