Enel Green Power, an Italian multinational renewable energy corporation with roughly 100 renewable power plants in North America, announced on July 21, 2020 that it began constructing a 146 MW photovoltaic (PV) facility co-located with a 50 MW/75 MWh battery in Texas, its first utility-scale hybrid project in North America.[1] The project is scheduled to be operation by summer 2021. In the press release, CEO of Enel Green Power, Antonio Cammisecra, said, “The Lily solar plus storage project highlights the huge potential of renewable energy growth and represents the future of power generation, which will increasingly be made up by sustainable, flexible plants that provide zero-carbon electricity while boosting grid stability.”

Enel also announced that it plans to deploy an additional 1 GW of battery storage capacity across its renewable projects in the U.S. over the next two years. To achieve this, Enel plans to set up 1 GW of utility-scale wind and solar projects in the U.S. and Canada annually through 2022 and evaluate the potential for co-located storage for each project. According to the company, that storage could provide benefits like bolstering grid reliability and further monetizing energy production.

[1] https://www.enelgreenpower.com/media/press/2020/07/enel-green-power-starts-construction-of-its-first-renewables-storage-project-in-north-america