California to Fast-Track Largest Project for Battery Energy Storage
California is moving quickly to build one of the biggest clean energy projects ever. The state’s Energy Commission has given the green light to the Darden Clean Energy Project, which will be the largest battery energy storage system in the world. It’s also the first project to get fast-track approval through a new state program called the Opt-In Certification Program created to help California switch fully to clean energy by 2045. The Darden Project will bring together solar power and battery storage on a huge scale. It will use about three million solar panels to produce 1.1 gigawatts of solar…