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What is Arizona's largest battery energy storage system?

Salt River Project (SRP) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, announced Arizona's largest operational battery energy storage system is now online. Sonoran Solar Energy Center is a 260-megawatt (MW) solar facility with the ability to charge a 1 gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery energy storage system, located south of Buckeye, Arizona.

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The solar and battery storage system is adding clean energy to the grid and will help match the electricity consumed by Google's forthcoming data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. Energy not needed by the data center will be used to meet other SRP customer needs.

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What is the largest combined solar and battery energy storage system?

Delivering up to 1 gigawatt (GW) of baseload power every day generated from renewable energy, it will be the largest combined solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) in the world.

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