{"id":1004343188,"date":"2019-08-01T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004343188"},"modified":"2019-08-01T05:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:18:10","slug":"grayson-power-plant-turns-to-cleaner-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/grayson-power-plant-turns-to-cleaner-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayson Power Plant Turns to Cleaner Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grayson Repowering and Why it Matters\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2fhqGIqiec?start=43&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Glendale Water &amp; Power has received approval from the Glendale City Council to repower the aging Grayson Power Plant with a combination of approximately 260 megawatts of renewable energy sources, energy storage and a limited amount of thermal generation. The decision comes after GWP was directed by the Council in April 2018 to re-evaluate the energy sector and find viable clean alternatives to its original proposal, which consisted primarily of thermal generation with battery storage.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the facilities at the Grayson Power Plant, located at 800 Air Way, Glendale, Calif., were completed between 1941 and 1971\u2014all except Unit 9 and the only one that will not be demolished.<\/p>\n<p>The approved project\u2019s capacity consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a 75-megawatt, 300 megawatt-hours battery energy storage system<\/li>\n<li>50 megawatts of distributed energy sources that include solar photovoltaic systems and energy efficiency and demand response programs<\/li>\n<li>93 megawatts of thermal generation from up to five internal combustion engines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GWP\u2019s announcement follows General Electric Co.\u2019s announcement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ge-pulling-the-plug-on-750mw-gas-fired-ca-plant\/\">demolish The Inland Empire Energy Center<\/a>, a 750-megawatt gas-fired power plant, which has become too expensive to operate and maintain.<\/p>\n<p><em>Video courtesy of the City of Glendale, Calif.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new plan includes a 75 MW, 300MWh battery energy storage system, up to 50 megawatts of distributed solar projects and 93 MW of thermal generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":1004543895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21748,1594,21742,21786,15],"tags":[45023,42629],"class_list":["post-1004343188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-industrial","category-los-angeles","category-latest","category-sustainability","category-west","tag-battery-storage","tag-energy-efficiency"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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