ESS, a long-duration battery manufacturer in the United States, signed a framework agreement with SB Energy, a fully owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp, to install two gigawatt-hours (2 GWh) of ESS batteries until 2026.
According to the terms of the deal, the first ESS system has already been delivered to an SB Energy site in Davis, California, and will be operational in October 2021.
SB Energy intends to add more ESS flow battery systems to its increasing portfolio of solar power projects in Texas and California, two of the country’s fastest-growing markets for long-duration storage.
ESS systems’ iron-, salt-, and water-based batteries enable clients improve grid resiliency while reducing the risk of the batteries catching fire, especially in wildfire-prone locations like California.
The ability of the company to make and ship batteries using iron, salt, and water is a game changer, allowing SB Energy to provide safe, sustainable, and low-cost energy storage to its clients.
Long-term storage is important to supplying flexible, inexpensive renewable energy on a large scale. In the future years, the energy shift will need huge quantities of storage capacity, therefore our focus should be on increasing manufacturing capacity.
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