The largest solar and battery storage project in the United States has just come online.
The 4,660-acre project — named Edwards & Sanborn and developed, owned, and operated by Terra-Gen — is located in the Mojave desert in Kern County, California. It consists of 875 megawatts (MW) of solar and 3,320 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy storage, reports Electrek.
In total, the massive Edwards & Sanborn consists of 1.9 million First Solar PV panels, 120,720 LG Chem, Samsung, and BYD long-duration energy storage batteries, and 400 miles of wire.
In addition to being the United States’ new largest solar and battery project, it holds another title. The project’s contractor, Mortensen, says that it is the largest public-private partnership that the U.S. Air Force has ever taken part in, as a section of the land it is on belongs to the Air Force, per Electrek.
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