Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions has placed into commercial operation the 120-MW Jackpot Solar project in Twin Falls County, Idaho.
This is the organization’s first utility-scale renewable energy project in the state and is the largest solar facility in operation in Idaho. It will provide energy to Idaho Power through a 20-year PPA.
“Entering the Idaho solar market with such a major renewable project is very exciting for Duke Energy,” said Chris Fallon, president of Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions. “Jackpot Solar will help strengthen the energy diversity in the state, and bring additional economic benefits to the state and Twin Falls County, while also supporting Idaho Power’s clean energy goals.”
SOLV Energy completed the engineering and construction of the project, which is located on 952 rural acres south of the city of Twin Falls. Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions will own and operate the project. The project employed about 200 workers at peak construction.
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The one thing Duke hasn’t announced is when this site will have a long term redox flow battery installed so Duke can also supply grid services to the local utility. There is NO sense in having a ‘group’ that develops alternative energy generation businesses and doesn’t add energy storage that can be used after hours to extend the use of non-fueled solar PV or even wind generation energy storage. Use the large utility scale ESS for shuttling energy from one generation resource to another and using the big flow battery to provide grid services in frequency, voltage regulation and some actual Peak demand dispatch all from the battery as a one source, multi-revenue generation stream.
Why does it have to be so hard?