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Megawatt-level energy storage

Intensium Max provides a megawatt-level energy storage solution featuring Saft’s eicient
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a high energy storage capacity. available. he system is readily scalable to suit a wide variety

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Southern California Edison’s 2013 Saft Batteries | www.saftbatteries.com
LCR RFO, which included a 50 MW

mandate for storage, was, by anyone’s
standards, an exhaustive evaluation of
resources capable of meeting their local
capacity requirements. To most people’s

surprise, SCE awarded contracts for
ive times the amount of storage they
were ordered to procure, with three of
the four companies that won, receiving WHAT DO ALL OF THESE

large, grid-scale projects.
In this irst, mandated procurement
by SCE, a deinitive message was sent
that energy storage had graduated
HAVE IN COMMON?
from the world of pilot programs and
was, in fact, ready for prime time, both
in terms of cost-efectiveness, and

reliability. It remains to be seen how the
other California utility procurements
will play out but it is already apparent
to those in the industry that energy

storage is clearly on its way to becoming
a major part of the grid in California.
his means renewables can take another
leap forward, with the possibility of a

complete displacement of fossil fuels.
his should be not just good, but great
for California, both environmentally and
economically.
THEY ARE ALL

It will be interesting to see which
other states will move to facilitate the
adoption of energy storage, how they
will do it, and when. A bold mandate like
MONUMENTAL
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