Regulator Proposes TRIPLE Utility Battery Storage

Where: California

What: Proposed Rulemaking, 16-02-007, by the California Public Utility Commission

To achieve a greenhouse emission target of 46 million metric ton for the utility sector by 2030, the CPUC proposes the following energy storage solutions:

• TRIPLE current levels of battery storage capacity
• DOUBLE pumped storage/ some other kind of long-duration storage technology
• DOUBLE current solar capacity
• 30% increase to wind capacity
• including, 1 GW of long-duration storage by 2026

Utility Dive | CPUC proposes optimal 2030 system portfolio tripling battery storage, more than doubling solar