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Battery storage facility in Nipomo nearly completed

January 26, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

A 100 megawatt battery storage facility is slated to open next month in Nipomo. Caballero Energy Storage plans to store energy in lithium-ion batteries.

Initially proposed and owned by PG&E, Apha Omega Power recently acquired the facility located near Joshua Street approximately 1,000 feet from Highway 101.

Caballero Energy Storage is slated to provide enough energy to power over 100,000 homes for up to four hours daily during peak electricity demand periods. The plan is to charge the batteries when energy demand and prices are lower — such as solar generation during daylight hours — and then send the power to the grid during peak demand.

In the aftermath of a raging fire earlier this month at a battery storage facility in Moss Landing, Assemblywoman Dawn Addis introduced legislation that if passed will require future battery storage facilities to be located at least 3,200 feet from sensitive places like homes, schools and medical facilities.

While the legislation will likely halt plans for a proposed 600-megawatt battery storage facility in Morro Bay, it appears it will have no impact on the Caballero Energy Storage in Nipomo.

 


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Couldn’t find anything from PG&E, or whoever owns it now, about the cost of this facility, other than costing 300-400$ per kilowatt hour per battery. There are at least 128 batteries on-site. I could find no manufacture, construction, nor maintenance costs for the facility. As near as I can figure, this site cost PG&E customers half a billion dollars, just for the kilowatt hours allegedly to be provided per battery.


No doubt, building the place cost as much.


For only 4 hours during peak use times when the grid may or may not be overwhelmed. If the batteries do not kick in, you’re still paying for them. And if they do kick in, you’re paying for them twice.


Oh. If (when?) this one catches fire, all the water used to fight it, will drain directly to the Santa Maria river, and then to the ocean, carrying whatever toxins and poisons created.


PG&E is putting up about a dozen of these battery storage sites, and many private companies are building more. The claim, is that these batteries “will only store clean and green produced energy, from wind and solar, that taste like strawberry lollipops and vanilla ice cream”. I may have paraphrased a little.


Yeah, not my words though: https://exencell.com/blogs/bess-costs-analysis-understanding-the-true-costs-of-battery-energy-storage-systems


These things are exploding and burning all around us, but the same people who are anti-nuke, fervently support these neighborhood toxic bombs.


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“power over 100,000 homes for up to four hours daily”

Is this a joke?… when will someone holler April fools?…


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“up to four hours daily” as long as no one turns on the A/C or uses their washing machine. Then the run time is cut to 23 minutes unless supplemented by rainbows and unicorn p*ss.


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Well, it’s not in my backyard. Carry on.


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