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Vistra, LS Power Top Winners in PG&E?s 420MW Storage Procurement

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PG&E picked the winning projects from 23 unique offers from 12 different parties, including demand response and existing natural gas-fired power plants. The state’s 2013 mandate to bring 1.35 gigawatt total online by August 2021.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

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Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels.

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An Inside Look at a Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Procurement in California

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First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. What are the models for how behind-the-meter solar-battery systems can serve grid needs? It breaks ground on multiple fronts.

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MIT Study: Transmission Is Key to a Low-Cost, Decarbonized US Grid

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First, nationwide transmission allows power-sharing across regions facing widely different weather systems that drive variation in wind and solar generation. It co-optimizes grid capacity investments and hourly operations costs of generation, storage, and transmission to meet projected electricity demand in 2040.