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LCG, March 205, 2025--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) today announced it will soon be the first regional transmission organization (RTO) in the nation to provide full services in both the Eastern and Western Interconnections of the U.S. power grid. On March 20, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously approved Southwest Power Pool’s amended tariff that includes provisions that enable Western members to join the RTO. The expansion of the SPP RTO is scheduled to go live April 1, 2026.
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LCG, March 20, 2025 – LCG Consulting (LCG) has released a second edition of its annual outlook of the ERCOT wholesale electricity market for 2025, highlighting the region's rapid transition toward increased reliance on renewable energy resources and battery storage.
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SCE Announces Contracts for 770 MW of New Energy Storage Capacity
LCG, May 7, 2020--Southern California Edison (SCE) Friday announced that it has signed seven contracts for battery energy storage systems (BESS) to enhance reliability in California. The contracts, with terms ranging from 10 to 20 years, will provide in aggregate 770 MW/3,080 MWh of battery storage resources. The projects are located across Southern California’s Kern, Fresno, Riverside and San Diego counties, and all projects are scheduled to commence operations by August 1, 2021.
SCE’s vice president of Energy Procurement & Management stated, “Signing these contracts aligns with SCE’s Pathway 2045, continues our support of California’s goal to green the state and also encourages clean energy projects of all types, creating jobs and strengthening our economy.”
The seven storage projects should improve reliability in California, where reliance on intermittent renewable generation resources continues to grow to meet the States renewable and green house gas (GHG) emission goals, and aging, dispatchable natural gas plants, including coastal plants with once-through cooling, are retired. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has targeted adding approximately 8,900 MW of energy storage capacity by 2030 in the State to support reliability in the quest to achieve GHG emission reduction goals.
Most of the seven battery storage projects are co-located with solar facilities so that the solar facilities can be used to charge the battery over the term of the contract and potentially utilize the federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC). The contract capacities range in size from 50 MW to 230 MW. These projects will be located at the same point of interconnection and will be the first of their kind on California’s grid.
The selected bidders for the projects are NextEra Energy Resources (three projects, totaling 460 MW), Southern Power (two projects, totaling 160 MW), LS Power (one project, 100 MW), and TerraGen Power (one project, 50 MW). The contracts will require CPUC approval, and SCE expects to submit the contracts for approval later this month.
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