-July 27,2022-
What would be by far the world’s largest energy storage project is being planned in western Fresno County next to the important Gates substation.Florida-based Key Energy Storage, LLC is proposing to construct and operate the Key Energy Storage Project on approximately 318-acres of private ag land in western Fresno County.
The site is located 4 miles southwest of the City of Huron, 0.4 mile east of Interstate 5 (I-5), immediately south of W. Jayne Avenue, between I-5 and South Lassen Avenue (State Route 269), and adjacent to PG&E’s existing Gates Substation.
According to their application with the county, a Notice of Preparation(NOP), the energy storage facility would consist of lithium-ion batteries with the potential to store approximately three (3) gigawatts of energy-3000 megawatts. That is more than enough battery storage to hold all Diablo Canyon nuclear plant can generate and 7X larger than the Moss Landing Battery Storage, currently the world’s largest.
‘this one proposed Fresno County project matches all the energy storage in California currently!’
At a recent celebration of the Moss Landing project, Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of the California Independent System Operator called the influx of battery storage capacity on the grid over the past year “an incredible growth curve, an incredible success story,” adding that “We’ve entered a golden age of energy storage here in California.” The ISO now has more than 3,160 MW of battery storage connected to the grid and is expected to add another 700 MW by the end of June.
So this one proposed Fresno County project matches all the energy storage in California currently!
The Key Energy project is being designed to hold solar power energy generated in daytime for hours after the sun goes down. The energy storage project is being sited in the solar panel laden Westlands Water District not far from the 20,000-acre Westlands Solar Park.Solar facilities are located to the north and southwest of it.
The project would also include a 500-kilovolt (kV) overhead generation tie line, which would extend north to the adjacent Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Gates Substation.This line would be installed on new steel or concrete poles, each up to 150 feet tall and spaced at approximately 500-foot intervals.
Buildout of the Project would occur in phases, with Phase I expected to come online in 2025, and Phase 2 expected to come online by 2026. After that, Phases 3 and 4 are expected to come online between 1 to 3 years after the previous phase, based on the region’s increasing demand for energy storage.
The Project would include development of an energy storage system facility and associated on-site support facilities including a substation, inverters, collector lines, fencing, access roads, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, and other ancillary facilities or equipment.
The lithium-ion battery storage system would consist of battery cells assembled in a series of modules connected together like a giant Lego puzzle (see pic).
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