Rows of Nova Power Bank’s battery storage units are seen Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Menifee. The facility, billed as one of the nation’s largest battery storage facilities, will be capable of powering 680,000 homes for up to four hours once construction wraps up in 2025. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Think of Nova Power Bank as a matchmaker in the power world.
No, it doesn’t set up wealthy influential singles. Instead, the 2,000-megawatt battery storage facility taking shape in Menifee will link renewable energy produced in off-peak windows with electric utilities in need of peak-hour juice.
Billed as one of the largest facilities of its kind in the nation, Nova, which broke around in August at the site of what used to be a natural gas power plant, is expected to be finished in 2025.
By then, Nova’s roughly 2,000 batteries spread over 43 acres will store enough electricity to power 680,000 homes for up to four hours.
Power will cycle through Nova 24 hours a day as wind and solar energy, produced when it’s not needed, is stored and sent to utilities such as Southern California Edison that need that more electricity at other points of the day and night.
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