Americans don’t have to imagine what it’s like to live someplace that’s aggressively switching to 100% clean energy, where 1 in 3 people have rooftop solar, 15% of new cars are electric and giant batteries store energy for use when the sun goes down.
They just have to go to Hawaii.
…The Kapolei Energy Storage facility is tucked away in 8 acres of industrial land about 20 miles west of Honolulu. More than anything it looks like 158 white storage sheds, each about the size of a shipping container, neatly lined up on concrete pads.
These lithium iron phosphate batteries can hold 185 megawatts of power, or 565 megawatt hours of energy, enough to supply electricity to 17% of the island of Oahu for three hours at peak load or six hours at half load, said Brandon Keefe, executive chairman of Plus Power, the Texas-based company that built the Kapolei battery.
Image: Plus Power
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