Enel Completes First ‘Wind Plus Storage’ Project

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Enel Green Power North America has announced the completion of its first large-scale hybrid wind project, Azure Sky Wind + Storage, as well as the addition of battery storage facilities at the operating Roadrunner and High Lonesome renewable project sites, helping ensure energy availability for Texans amid high demand periods.

“We’re committed to connecting Texans with clean and cost-effective electricity through our renewable projects. The Azure Sky wind + storage project and storage additions at Roadrunner and High Lonesome help to add measurable value in the form of storage capacity and reliability to support the state’s electricity system,” said Paolo Romanacci, head of Enel Green Power in the US and Canada.

He added, “Enel Green Power’s projects provide more generation, more resource diversity, and more dispatchable storage – three key elements of Texas’s goal to reform its power grid.”

Located in Throckmorton County of Texas, Azure Sky wind + storage is the first large-scale hybrid wind project of Enel globally. Features include a 350 MW wind facility, expected to generate around 1.3 TWh of renewable energy yearly, paired with a 137 MW/205 MWh battery storage facility. To support companies with distributed energy needs to collaboratively purchase renewable energy, Enel signed a PPA with corporate partners Akamai, MilliporeSigma, Synopsys and Uber. Kellogg Company, HP Hood and lululemon also signed PPAs to purchase clean energy output.

Enel said that it has installed grid-connected battery systems at the sites of the Roadrunner solar and High Lonesome wind projects to help balance intermittent generation profiles in the renewables-saturated western region of ERCOT. The total capacity of the battery storage in the two projects is 170 MWh. The company said that By early 2023, Enel will operate a portfolio of 12 battery energy storage systems able to store over 1,290 MWh in Texas.

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