Beijing –
Rows of what appear to be thin, white shipping containers are lined up on a barren stretch of land in China’s Shandong province.
Packed with batteries, they form a 795 megawatt (MW) plant that can store up to 1 million kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to power 150,000 homes for a day. That made it China’s largest storage facility when it was connected to the grid last Saturday.
The project, built by Lijin County Jinhui New Energy Co., is part of a boom in energy storage development in China, which calls for further investment in the sector to boost renewable electricity and ease grid bottlenecks.
