Re:Britain in two-week coal-free record
by toomuchtodo on Friday May 31, 2019 @02:29PM
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> As we use more and more natural gas, we can expect more and more methane disasters like the leak from Aliso Canyon in CA which was the largest methane leak in US history. This released over 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere and required 11,000 residents to be evacuated.
While tragic, it did prompt California to require utility scale battery storage replace the gas turbines that used that storage facility.
> CPUC President Michael Picker said the battery projects were deployed with “unprecedented” speed and cooperation among stakeholders.
> “I was stunned at the ability of batteries and the battery industry’s ability to meet our needs,” said Picker, speaking at the launch event yesterday for Tesla’s battery system at SCE’s Mira Loma substation in Ontario, California. “This was something I didn’t expect to see until 2020. Here it is in 2017, and it’s already in the ground.”
For reference, total time before Brown's emergency order and this battery storage facility turning up was just 1 year.
While tragic, it did prompt California to require utility scale battery storage replace the gas turbines that used that storage facility.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/aliso-canyon-em...
> CPUC President Michael Picker said the battery projects were deployed with “unprecedented” speed and cooperation among stakeholders.
> “I was stunned at the ability of batteries and the battery industry’s ability to meet our needs,” said Picker, speaking at the launch event yesterday for Tesla’s battery system at SCE’s Mira Loma substation in Ontario, California. “This was something I didn’t expect to see until 2020. Here it is in 2017, and it’s already in the ground.”
For reference, total time before Brown's emergency order and this battery storage facility turning up was just 1 year.