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.

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The California Public Utilities Commission headquarters in San Francisco. Its modeling has shown that the state will need 70 GW of storage to meet its 100% renewables goal by 2045. Beyond 2030, all of this will need a duration of at least six hours.

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