{"id":57047,"date":"2021-12-16T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=57047"},"modified":"2021-12-16T05:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:34:58","slug":"solar-powered-battery-fpl-mb2276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-powered-battery-fpl-mb2276\/","title":{"rendered":"Wraps Off The &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest&#8221; Solar Powered Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/solar-battery-fpl.jpg\" alt=\"FPL solar powered battery facility\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/solar-battery-fpl.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/solar-battery-fpl-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/solar-battery-fpl-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/solar-battery-fpl-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) has unveiled what it says is the world\u2019s largest operational solar-powered battery installation in an event with lasers and drones &#8211; as you do when officially launching a completed energy storage project.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The newly commissioned FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center is a 409MW\/900MWh facility consisting of 132 energy storage containers across a 40-acre site; each housing roughly 400 battery modules. It all came together pretty quickly, with the first battery components installed in June this year.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is charged by the existing Manatee Solar Energy Center, a 74.5 MW PV power station built by FPL in 2016 boasting 341,880 solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>Manatee Energy Storage Center will reduce the need for FPL to run its gas peaker power plants \u2013 further reducing emissions and saving customers money through avoided fuel costs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This battery is another example of how FPL has become a leader in clean energy and sustainability without sacrificing affordability or reliability,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fpl.com\/news-releases?item=126259\"> said<\/a> Eric Silagy, FPL president and CEO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps concerned the project wasn&#8217;t awesome enough, drones and lasers were thrown in with the launch:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Unveiling the world\u2019s largest solar-powered battery\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gFvcPIcNc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>FPL &#8211; the USA&#8217;s largest electricity gentailer<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-powered-battery-fpl-mb2276\/#en-57047-1' id='enref-57047-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(57047)'>1<\/a><\/sup> &#8211; has installed more than 13 million solar panels to date and has a goal of 30 million solar panels in total across the state of Florida by 2030. That represents more than one panel for each Floridian and a total capacity of more than 11.7 GW.<\/p>\n<p>Early this year, the company closed down its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/florida-coal-fpl-mb1841\/\">last coal fired power station<\/a> in Florida. It was an interesting situation as FPL bought the power plant with the express intention of shutting it down.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from solar energy and gas-fired electricity generation assets, the company also has wind farms and nuclear power plants in its fleet. FPL serves more than 5.6 million customer accounts and 11 million residents across Florida; more than half the state&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<h2>Recent Australian Big Battery News<\/h2>\n<p>It only seems only yesterday when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tesla-big-battery-first-year\/\">Tesla Big Battery<\/a> (Hornsdale Power Reserve) in South Australia held the title of the world&#8217;s biggest battery. And it really wasn&#8217;t that long ago &#8211; 2017.\u00a0 Hornsdale was originally 100MW\/129MWh, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tesla-hornsdale-expansion-mb1298\/\">was expanded<\/a> last year to 150 MW\/194MWh.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Tesla Big Battery was constructed, there has been a much larger facility brought online in Australia &#8211; Neoen&#8217;s 300 MW\/450 MWh Victorian Big Battery last week. Getting it operational before the end of the year was a good effort given part of the facility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victorian-big-battery-fire-mb2099\/\">caught fire in late July<\/a>, which held up construction while the cause was being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>There are a bunch more big batteries in the pipeline for Australia. Just in the last week there has been progress on a number of projects at various stages including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neoen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neoen.com\/var\/fichiers\/20211214-mr-neoencapital-battery-constructionstart.pdf\">began construction<\/a> of a 100MW\/200MWh big battery in the ACT. The facility was originally to be 50MW.<\/li>\n<li>Neoen revealed plans for the <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/neoen-reveals-plans-for-another-300mw-big-battery-in-south-australia\/\">Blyth Battery<\/a> in South Australia, which will be up to 300MW\/ 800MWh.<\/li>\n<li>The Northern Territory Government <span class=\"bumpedFont15\">awarded the contract for the <a href=\"https:\/\/createsend.com\/t\/t-6B2C061FFFD7DF7D2540EF23F30FEDED\">35MW Darwin big battery<\/a> to Hitachi. Construction is to commence next year and the facility is expected to be operational in 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Greenspot said it has lodged a development application for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenspot.com.au\/news\/uploads\/greenspot-community-newsletter-final-20210215.pdf\">500MW\/1000MWh big battery<\/a> at the site of the closed Wallerawang coal fired power station near Lithgow in New South Wales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In April this year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/aemo.com.au\/en\/learn\/energy-explained\/energy-101\/energy-explained-big-batteries\">Australian Energy Market Operator noted<\/a> 85 big batteries with a total capacity of 18,660 MW were in the planning pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>While the future of large-scale wind, solar and energy storage in Australia continues to look very bright &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/aemo.com.au\/newsroom\/media-release\/nem-prepares-for-step-change\">coal&#8217;s bleaker<\/a> than a Yallourn mine landscape &#8211; a significant remaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/transmission-joint-statement\/\">challenge is sufficient transmission<\/a> to carry all this new renewable energy goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) has unveiled what it says is the world\u2019s largest operational solar-powered battery installation in an event with lasers and drones &#8211; 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