US’ biggest solar-plus-storage power plant a sign of things to come, says Primergy
An “unbelievable appetite for clean energy” is pushing the developer of Gemini, the US’s largest co-located solar-plus-storage power plant, to pursue opportunities of a similar scale.
Primergy, a renewable energy development platform launched by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, brought Gemini, a 690MWac/966MWdc solar PV plant paired with a 380MW/1,400MWh DC-coupled battery energy storage system (BESS) into commercial operation last year.
Located in Clark County, Nevada, the power plant is the biggest single-phase co-located solar and storage plant in the country.
The largest BESS in the US is found at a separate project which was built in multiple phases, the Edwards & Sanborn project in California, from developer Terra-Gen, which has 875MWdc solar PV generation capacity and 3,287MWh of battery storage. Both were featured in Energy-Storage.news’ rundown of the most-read stories of 2024 over the holiday period.
Neither project is an anomaly in the sort of gigawatt-hour scale of battery storage the industry can expect to see coming to fruition, particularly in terms of co-located or hybrid resource solar-plus-storage projects, Primergy CEO Ty Daul said in an interview to be published later this week on Energy-Storage.news Premium.
