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NextEra Energy Resources and Salt River Project today announced the opening of Pinal Central Solar Energy Center (PCSEC), a universal-scale, integrated solar plant equipped with a battery system that will store energy and enable SRP to provide clean energy to customers when usage is at its highest and needed most.
The 20MW solar photovoltaic generation facility, which is Arizona’s largest utility-scale solar energy center paired with a battery storage system, will generate enough solar energy to power 5,000 homes and will store excess energy in a state-of-the-art 10 megawatt (MW) lithium-ion battery storage system.
Solar generation starts to ramp down in the late afternoon when SRP customers are typically using energy at the highest level. With this battery system, the stored energy will be available to customers during that critical time.
