California Must Add 1.3 Gigawatts of Power Storage by 2020
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California regulators today voted unanimously to require the state’s utilities to purchase 1.325 gigawatts of storage capacity by 2020 to make renewable energy more reliable and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
The state’s three biggest utilities must present plan for buying an initial 200 megawatts of storage capacity by March 1, the California Public Utilities Commission said today in an e-mailed statement.