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"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A renewable energy plant in Oregon that combines solar
power, wind power and massive batteries to store the energy generated there
officially opened Wednesday as the first utility-scale plant of its kind in
North America.
The project, which can generate enough electricity to power a small city at
maximum output, addresses a key challenge facing the utility industry as the
U.S. transitions away from fossil fuels and increasingly turns to solar and
wind farms for power. Wind and solar are clean sources of power, but utilities
have been forced to fill in gaps when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t
shining with fossil fuels like coal or natural gas.
At the Oregon plant, massive lithium batteries store up to 120 megawatt-hours
of power generated by the 300-megawatt wind farms and 50-megawatt solar farm so
it can be released to the electric grid on demand. At maximum output, the
facility can produce more than half of the power that was generated by Oregon’s
last coal plant, which was demolished earlier this month.
On-site battery storage isn’t new, and interest in solar-plus-battery projects
in particular has soared in the U.S. in recent years due to robust tax credits
and incentives and the falling price of batteries. The Wheatridge Renewable
Energy Facility in Lexington, Oregon, however, is the first in the U.S. to
combine integrated wind, solar and battery storage at such a large scale in one
location, giving it even more flexibility to generate continuous output without
relying on fossil fuels to fill in the gaps."
Via
The Fixer October 5, 2022:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/banana-prices-fair-wages/
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