Texas state government approves grant for 10 MW energy storage project
Luminant has announced that Texas environmental regulators have awarded the company aUS$1 million grant to build the state's largest electricity storage facility of its kind. To be located adjacent to Luminant's 180 MW Upton 2 solar power plant in West Texas, this 10 MW battery would be the seventh largest in the U.S.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality grant that will help fund the battery's construction is part of the state's emissions reduction plan. This would be the first large battery installation in Texas for Luminant's parent company Vistra Energy, which has already proposed building the world's largest battery in California.
Such battery installations would help make solar energy a more lucrative source of electricity in Texas, a sunny state which gets less than 1 percent of its commercially-generated electricity from solar panels.
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October 30, 2018
Recurrent Energy signs PPA agreements
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Green Power EMC and Silicon Ranch sign solar PPAs
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October 29, 2018
Missouri Public Service Commission approve 400 MW wind project proposal
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Cinemark enters into a 9-year PPA deal with AEP
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October 26, 2018
Duke Energy announces development of new 75 MW solar project in Florida
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