Over 500 MWh Standalone Battery Storage Facility Enters Operation in Texas

The battery is the largest merchant energy storage facility in the world. Wärtsilä Energy and Eolian LP partnered for the 200 MW grid-scale battery system. Eolian LP, a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners, has completed construction on what will become the largest merchant energy storage facility in the world, the companies stated. The Madero and Ignacio energy storage plants have combined power capacity of 200 MW. The grid storage projects will participate in the retail energy power market in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. The Texas project is the first U.S. storage project to make use of the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for standalone utility-scale energy storage systems, which was introduced in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
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