Tender for 500 MW Energy Storage Capacity in USA
The eight Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) in California has launched a Request for Offers (RFO) for the procurement of up to 500 MW of long-duration energy storage capacity to cost-effectively enhance renewable energy portfolios and aid in achieving California’s aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets.
The RFO seeks a minimum of a 10-year deal for the grid-charged technologies. The projects should start its operation by 2026 and provides up to eight hours of minimum discharge.
The following are part of the tie-up of the aggregators:
- Central Coast Community Energy,
- CleanPowerSF,
- Marin Clean Energy,
- Peninsula Clean Energy,
- Redwood Coast Energy Authority,
- San José Clean Energy,
- Silicon Valley Clean Energy, and
- Sonoma Clean Power
Long-duration storage provides grid resiliency to support higher concentrations of renewable energy on the grid. Similar to battery storage today, which helps provide energy during a few evening hours when solar stops producing, long-duration storage will be able to charge from the grid when renewable resources are at their peak, and discharge for periods of 8-16 hours when renewable production is lower.
The addition of long-duration storage to the CCA portfolios will aid renewable integration on the grid while advancing California’s aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2030. Long-duration storage technologies are a needed solution to provide grid reliability as California transitions away from fossil fuel plants. Earlier in 2020 the Joint CCAs issued a Request for Information for long-duration storage and received more than 58 project entries with 14 different technologies, signaling significant supplier interest.
“By working together, the eight CCAs are able to procure large-scale projects that would be challenging for one CCA to procure on its own,” said Girish Balachandran, Silicon Valley Clean Energy’s CEO. “Collaborating on this long-duration storage solution allows the CCAs to manage financial and technology risks while still diversifying portfolios with cost-effective and innovative resources.”
The projects eligible for the tender will be shortlisted by 2021.
The deadline for the submission of documents for the tender is on December 1, 2020.
Tender information can be accessed on our business opportunity page here.
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