By: Karl Erik Stromsta
NextEra Energy, North America’s leading wind and solar generator, is
combing through its base of existing solar facilities with an eye to retroactively
adding batteries, as it adopts a more “aggressive” view on the falling cost of
energy storage.
“We
increasingly see storage as an important standalone business in its own right,”
CEO Jim Robo said Friday on an earnings call. The company is reviewing “a
number of opportunities to add storage to our existing solar sites to take
advantage of the [Investment Tax Credit] and enhance the value of our
existing projects for customers.”
NextEra
has already set a precedent for this approach: In 2018 it added a 10-megawatt
battery facility to its existing Babcock Ranch solar farm in Florida. Last
March things got much more interesting when its Florida Power & Light unit
announced plans to build a 409-megawatt/900-megawatt-hour
battery project known as the Manatee Energy Storage Center, to be charged by an
existing solar facility.
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