California’s first eight-hour grid battery just came online

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The California grid has a timing problem. Solar runs from mid-morning through early evening. Demand peaks later. Batteries have bridged part of that gap for years, but only about four hours’ worth. On June 1, a project in Kern County doubled that window. Tumbleweed, a 125-megawatt battery installation, went […] The post California’s first eight-hour grid battery just came online first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.