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World's Biggest Battery to Boost Solar in Texas Oil Country
- At 495 megawatts, project is ‘five times’ bigger than others
- Set for 2021, it’s located within the oil-rich Permian Basin
Photographer: Joshua Lott/Bloomberg
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The world’s largest battery could soon be storing solar energy deep in the heart of Texas oil country.
The 495-megawatt storage system would be built in tandem with a solar farm of the same size in Borden County, Texas. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas Inc., which operates most of the state’s grid, posted the details in a chart that shows the state’s battery storage will surge more than sixfold to 584 megawatts when the projects are completed in 2021.