Tesla has highlighted an upcoming Megapack undertaking that has repurposed a retired steam plant in California, coming as the newest of the corporate’s many ongoing vitality storage initiatives.
The corporate highlighted the Arevon Condor Vitality Storage Mission in San Bernardino County, California, in a submit on its Tesla Megapack account on X on Friday. The location is positioned in Grand Terrace, and because the firm factors out, it’s housed in a former steam plant.
The Condor undertaking now options 200 MW/800 MWh of Tesla’s Megapack vitality storage methods, in what was previously house to the Highgrove Steam Plant from 1952 to 2001.
One of many largest battery websites within the US, that includes 200 MW / 800 MWh of Megapacks, Arevon’s Condor Vitality Storage Mission has repurposed a retired steam plant web site to boost grid stability in San Bernardino County, CA pic.twitter.com/uBksHN9TRN
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Arevon introduced further financing for the undertaking in a press launch earlier this yr, saying that it deliberate to start out operations on the Condor web site in Q2. The corporate additionally has a 15-year contract in place with Southern California Edison, the first utility supplier within the space.
“The undertaking web site location has a historical past of supporting regional vitality wants, so it’s splendid for the Condor undertaking, which is able to energy the transition to extra renewable vitality sources,” stated Tim Hemig, TenaSenior Vice President in Tenaska’s Growth Group. “It represents California’s continued evolution towards a extra dependable and sustainable vitality future.”
Development crews first broke floor on the Condor Vitality Storage undertaking final February, and Arevon initially predicted that building would take round a yr to finish. Arevon has additionally labored with Tesla on a number of vitality storage websites previously, just lately together with a 300 MW/1.2GWh undertaking in Kern County, California.
Tesla presently produces the Megapack at its “Megafactory” in Lathrop, California, the place it has been ramping up manufacturing over the past couple of years. The corporate has additionally damaged floor on an upcoming Megafactory in Shanghai, China, and each websites are anticipated to have the ability to produce 10,000 Megapack items per yr at quantity manufacturing.
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