California's home batteries are replacing gas plants and saving hundreds of millions

Brattle Group analyzed a gigawatt-hour virtual power plant test that may be the world's largest as part of its review of California's distributed peak-shaving program.From pv magazine USA Battery manufacturing has scaled into the terawatt-hours annually, a breathtaking pace that could soon support multi-day backup of electricity systems. For now, U.S. installations fall far short of what would be required for grid-scale backup, and 80% to 90% of those batteries are tied up in vehicles or homes, rarely connected to the grid. That imbalance is beginning to shift. The Connected Solutions program ...

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