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    Enel Green Power beefs up Renewable and Energy Storage portfolio within troubled Texas Grid

    July 26, 2022
    The Azure Sky Wind + Storage is the Italian company’s first large-scale hybrid wind project, worldwide. It has 350 MW in wind cacpacity with a 137 MW/205 MWh battery storage system
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    Italian renewable energy company Enel Green Power has completed the development of Azure Sky Wind + Storage in Throckmorton County, Texas, as it continues its efforts to strengthen the Texas power grid and ensure peak energy demands are met using clean energy.

    The Azure Sky Wind + Storage is the Italian company’s first large-scale hybrid wind project, worldwide. It has  350 MW in wind cacpacity that could generate around 1.3 TWh of renewable energy yearly. The facility is also equipped with a 137 MW/205 MWh battery storage system.

    Enel Green Power has signed an aggregated power purchase agreement with companies, including Akamai, MilliporeSigma, Uber, and Kellogg Company, among others, to supply them clean energy.

    Additionally, the Italian renewable energy company has added new grid-connected battery storage systems at the Roadrunner solar and High Lonesome wind projects in Texas, with each battery system providing 57 MW/86 MWh of storage capacity. The battery systems at both the projects offer a combined storage capacity of 170 MWh.

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    With Texas power grids often facing challenges due to extreme weather conditions and subsequent surge in energy demands, the battery storage systems will improve grid reliability in the state. The battery systems can offer flexible capacity to balance intermittent generation profiles amid shifting grid conditions in the renewables-saturated western region of ERCOT.

    Enel is expected to operate a portfolio of 12 battery energy storage systems in Texas with a combined storage capacity of over 1,290 MWh by early 2023.

    “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,” Paolo Romanacci, Head of Enel Green Power in the U.S. and Canada, said. 

    In the U.S. and Canada, Enel Green Power is looking to add 5 GW of new renewable generation and 2,600 MWh of storage capacity by the end of 2024.