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The battery boom continues in the San Diego region, with an energy storage project unveiled Tuesday in Chula Vista that can power nearly 3,000 homes for each hour it provides electricity to the grid. Six battery storage containers owned and operated by local renewable energy company EnerSmart will deliver six megawatts and 12 megawatt-hours of energy by interconnecting with a nearby San Diego Gas & Electric substation, promising to relieve strain on the state’s power system and reduce the chances of blackouts.
The Chula Vista storage facility provides stabilizing services for the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO for short, that manages the electric grid for about 80 percent of the state and a small part of Nevada.
“All this is very localized versus a huge project that’s in the middle of the desert,” said James Beach, EnerSmart’s co-founder and
Based in Solana Beach with nine employees, EnerSmart has 11 storage projects in various stages of development in San Diego County (including the Chula Vista facility), totaling 156 megawatts.
Meanwhile, SDG&E owns and operates seven battery storage projects and in the past two months opened two new facilities — a 40-megawatt, 160-megawatt-hour site in Falbrook and a facility in the desert of Imperial Valley with a capacity for 131 megawatts and 524 megawatt-hours over a four-hour period.