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The World’s Largest Battery To Power The Permian

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Borden County, Texas, is set to become the home of the world’s largest battery storage system in 2021.

IP Juno, a unit of Intersect Power LLC, has recently outlined plans to build a 495-MW storage system together with a solar farm of the same size in Borden County, a small community in West Texas in the very heart of the most important U.S. oil field, the Permian.

It’s hard to miss the ironic interrelation between the booming Texas oil production and the rise of renewables in the most prolific U.S. shale basin. As the West Texas electricity grid strains under surging demand to power oil and gas operations, some of the new capacity installations in the coming years, including the world’s biggest battery according to Bloomberg, will help provide more electricity to the grid from solar power.

Soaring oil production is set to help the case for renewables in Texas, while wind and solar are set to help meet growing electricity demand for oil and gas drilling.

According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operator of most of the Texas grid, the planned 495-MW solar plus storage system will boost the Texas cumulative battery capacity from 89 MW currently to 584 MW in 2021, when the project is expected to be ready.

The new solar-and-storage facility could help raise the Texas capacity and ease the pressure on the grid at a time when booming oil production continues to drive power demand in the oil patch.

Permian oil producers need a lot more electricity to power well production than they did just a few years ago. And the West Texas electricity grid—which wasn’t planned for so heavy a load—is straining to catch up with power demand. While drillers have flocked again to the hottest U.S. shale play, electricity infrastructure and transmission grids in West Texas need years to expand to keep reliable power supply on.

“Significant oil and gas development in far West Texas continues to drive increasing electricity demand in Texas. The annual growth rate in peak demand in West Texas is forecasted to be around 8 percent through 2023, whereas ERCOT’s annual system-wide load growth rate is 2 percent during the same time,” ERCOT said at the end of last year.

The planning reserve margin for the summer of 2019 is expected to be 8.1 percent—lower than in previous years, “primarily driven by a higher summer peak load forecast and delays and cancellations of planned generation projects,” according to ERCOT.

Until new power generation and transmission projects come online, oil companies in the Permian have started to look for alternative solutions to power their oil production operations—electrification projects, gas-powered compressors, solar, and wind power.

ExxonMobil, for example, has entered into two power purchase agreements (PPAs), under which the U.S. major will buy 500 MW of solar and wind power from the U.S. unit of Denmark’s Ørsted in the Permian, Ørsted said in November 2018. According to Bloomberg NEF, this is the biggest renewable power contract an oil firm has ever signed.

Although it is mostly known for oil and gas, Texas is the U.S. leader in terms of installed wind capacity. According to data from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), with over 24 GW of wind in the state, only four countries in the world have more wind power than Texas. As of Q4 2018, Texas had a total of 144 wind projects online, of which 133 projects with over 10 MW capacity. Wind capacity under construction was 5,322 MW, while wind capacity in advanced development was 1,660 MW. In 2017, wind energy provided 14.8 percent of all in-state electricity production, AWEA data shows.

Texas is also sixth in the top ten U.S. solar states, according to the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA).

In 2018, wind power provided 18.6 percent of the energy use in Texas, while wind will make up 23.4 percent of the 2019 generation capacity, according to ERCOT estimates from last month. Solar power is expected to account for 2.1 percent of the 2019 generation capacity in Texas.

Renewable energy and battery storage in Texas is set to increase in coming years. So is oil and gas production in the fastest-growing U.S. shale basin. Booming oil drilling will require more power to the grid and some of it, as odd as it may seem, will be coming from solar and wind power.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

 



56 Comments on "The World’s Largest Battery To Power The Permian"

  1. Shortend on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 8:51 am 

    We’ll see how renewable this clean energy truely is when the fossil fuels dive downward.
    My bet there will be a lot of junkyard artifacts left behind as a testament to this folly

  2. Jef on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 9:35 am 

    Add massive battery storage to the existing national grid and you could cut FF use in the energy sector by 30 to 50% without “renewable energy”.

  3. Robert Inget on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 9:42 am 

    Folly? We’ve been centralizing power since year 1.
    The Texas grid like US grid need to become more Decentralized. (detached from cyber attacks etc)
    Texas
    “The Lone Star State has been adding wind capacity at a healthy clip and is the only state in the top five where hydro isn’t the number one renewable source. Wind power accounts for all but 1 GW of the 10.985 GW renewable capacity.”

    IOWs dance with the girl ya brought.
    IOW’s Texas is #1 in wind power in the US

    Since Nuclear power seems doomed (for now).
    Relying more on storage from renewables is a good thing.

    Saudi Arabia has been installing solar for years so as to maximize dwindling oil capabilities.
    Lately the move is toward Nuclear, to make weapons, I guess.

    Here in Oregon, #3 in renewables, we offer State
    tax incentives for solar and wind.

  4. Robert Inget on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 9:52 am 

    Jef, Good idea.But, remember, most states have no oil or gas, but wind blows a plenty.
    Oklahoma a state like Texas with O&G, puts millions of dollars in ranchers pockets yearly from wind power.
    I can tell you with absolute confidence decentralized power sources and storage is indeed the future.

    (Texas grid stands alone, all other lower 47 are interconnected).

  5. Roll Credits on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 11:16 am 

    Hope their big battery has wheels so they can roll it away in a few years when the Permian goes into steep decline.

  6. Outcast_Searcher on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 11:25 am 

    Shortend: If you could spell “truly”, you’d at least seem more credible.

    In the real world, the imperfect isn’t the enemy of the good. And over their useful life, solar and wind are a hell of a lot cleaner than burning FF’s, both in pollution, and in CO2 produced.

  7. Outcast_Searcher on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 11:27 am 

    As if the EIA and IEA projections for oil production being solid to up through 2040 to 2050 weren’t FAR more reliable than the doomer crowd, and their endless braying about running out of oil any time now. At least they’re consistent — wrong year after year, and decade after decade.

  8. Outcast_Searcher on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 11:30 am 

    Jef: And what would we power the batteries with which would increase energy 30% to 50%?

    Your imagination? Moonbeams? Transmission losses?

    If it would allow more even running of FF burning energy facilities, then if might save a little, but not 50%.

    Or do you have credible citations, vs. making stuff up?

  9. Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 11:46 am 

    Add massive battery storage to the existing national grid and you could cut FF use in the energy sector by 30 to 50% without “renewable energy”.

    It is BS, he is making it up.

    Batteries are fine to close the 24 cycles in private homes. In a couple of years storage cost is expected to drop below $50/kWh:

    https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/battery-storage-cost-less-than-50-kwh/

    You’ll have your family “power-wall” for $250,- “helping you thru the nite”.

    Compare: In 1984 I bought a Commodore disk drive with 170kB storage for 1,000 hard Dutch guilders.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541

    Now I buy a 2 GB drive (factor 10,000) for less than 100 euro.

    That’s the power of innovation.
    Won’t be different with renewable energy.

  10. Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 11:47 am 

    “24 cycles” = “24 hour cycles”

  11. Go Speed Racer on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 12:35 pm 

    So brilliant,
    one million motorcycle batteries to supply
    power to the electric grid.

    When it comes to the liberals, their most
    brilliant idea is either this big battery,
    or admitting ISIS into America as citizens.

    Such excellent ideas.

  12. Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 1:30 pm 

    what a waste of energy, material, and engineering. the biggest batteries is in nature – water holds sun energy slightly longer than land and this energy is harvested by wind turbines along the coasts.

    But this is not long term storage, they say. I don’t see the difference between this form of storage and electricity on the wire – both are momentarily with winds having a much larger transient time.

  13. Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 1:34 pm 

    guys, it’s possible that we are dealing with tards who are highly emotional and agenda driven. eurotard pushes white supremacy and even paid jimmy wales to edit entry on dutch people being creator of the earth. and aswang is pushing communial living with bf’s in the phils. some other tards are libtards and pushing atheistic, muzzie friendly agenda.

    no wonder we have found no concensus. don’t be deceived by background noise with an agenda. always ask for proof of probing to believe in green men who promise unlimited electricity

  14. Anonymouse on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 4:51 pm 

    Dont be fibber now cloggstein, You are still using that that very same C64 today. It is what you use to post your non-stop daily yiddish drivel. Oey vey, are you ever cheap, even by the chosen peoples standards. Upgrade to an Apple Lisa or something, then you can brag(some more).

    However, you do get a silver star, for keeping your own E-waste footprint as low as possible, even if the reasons have nothing to do with any of your fake concern for the ‘environment’.

  15. Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Feb 2019 5:17 pm 

    “Dont be fibber now cloggstein, You are still using that that very same C64 today.”

    Yes sirree! And still going strong with my Compuserve account and self-made 1200 baud modem.

    peep-peep-peep

    And illegally copied programs burned into an ep-rom, for faster loading. Like Flightsimulator or Pacman.

  16. Shortend on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 1:13 am 

    I’m old school Outcast Searcher

    English[edit]. Etymology[edit]. true + -ly. Adverb[edit]. truely (comparative truelier or more truely, superlative trueliest or most truely). Archaic spelling of truly. quotations ▽. Charles Herle. God did not only truely.
    BTW…you are incorrect too in your fantasy regarding Solar….that’s OK, because it doesn’t matter at all.

  17. Cloggie on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 3:48 am 

    So brilliant,
    one million motorcycle batteries to supply
    power to the electric grid.

    When it comes to the liberals, their most
    brilliant idea is either this big battery,
    or admitting ISIS into America as citizens.

    What’s wrong with car dual use? Why can’t private cars transport hydrogen to their own homes and let the house plug into the car and transfer electricity to the home power-wall, rather than the other way around? If a car can be used to collect the groceries, it can also be used to collect the hydrogen-power for domestic use.

    It has my natzi seal of approval.lol

    http://www.h2-fuel.nl/en/

  18. Simon on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 4:28 am 

    Mr Long Russian Name

    This Energy storage device, makes the energy dispatchable, that is the difference between wind and solar and wind/solar with storage.

    This means that the owners can become price setters etc etc.

    Kinda a big deal

    Simon

  19. Davy on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 4:47 am 

    Simon, that is Paultard. I am not sure if you remember him or not you have not been here for a while.

  20. simon on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 9:10 am 

    I have been super busy, but checked in, and got so confused with each other swapping identities, it gave me a headache, so checked out for a bit.
    Don’t mind the abuse, don’t mind the mad racism and anti Semitism, kinda enjoy the conspiracy theories, but was too confused with id swapping 🙂

  21. rockman on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 10:44 am 

    “As the West Texas electricity grid strains under surging demand to power oil and gas operations…”. I need to dig into the electricity demand growth in the PB. I’ve paid electricity bills for operations for the last 10 years: drilling and completing wells essentially require NOTHING from the grid. We produce our needs from on site diesel generators. As far as demand for pumping oil wells we do typically draw from the grid but that per well demand is not very great. Which is why you see thousands of wells pumping 10 bopd or less and are still economic even at low oil prices so obviously the electric bill can’t be very large.

    Just a preliminary guess but I suspect the agricultural demand fron the grid in west Texas is much greater then that from petroleum operations: a huge irrigation demand out there.

    As far as solar in Texas: as cell costs have come down solar has finally started to build out…slowly. Between south and west Texas we have enough open and cheap land to put in enough solar to power the entire country…if the cost is right. Obviously battery capacity would bump that cost up significantly. But same answer: Texas has much more solar potential the wind…if the cost iis correct.

  22. Davy on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 10:53 am 

    “but was too confused with id swapping ”

    Simon, this is JuanP and has been regularly deployed by JuanP since October. In the past this only happened on rare occasions. JuanP decided to deploy this dirty behavior daily for months. He has been doing this since October. Juanpee also has around 10 different sock puppets he deploys as needed to dirty up the board. It is really a pain for everyone here. Luckily juanp has been quiet lately. I suspect he is now in his depression phase of his mood swings.

  23. Davy on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 11:03 am 

    Not me above, and Mr. Long Russian name is MY sock puppet.

    dumbass

  24. Davy on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 11:09 am 

    BTW Simon. Welcome back.

    What country are you from? Friend.

  25. rockman on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 11:10 am 

    OK: here’s a bit of support from THE experts on Texas electricity…ERCOT. Current demand increase for the entire state is right on the forecast from 2009. Long before the surge in Permian Basin petroleum activity.

    http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/landing_pages/89020/fig2-ERCOTAnnualEnergypng.png

  26. Cloggie on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 12:13 pm 

    BTW Simon. Welcome back.

    What country are you from? Friend.

    Brexit country, or not.

    At any rate from the UK.

  27. juanpee identity theft on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 12:21 pm 

    Mr mental illness juanpee stealing my identity

    Davy on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 11:03 am
    Not me above, and Mr. Long Russian name is MY sock puppet.dumbass

    Davy on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 11:09 am
    BTW Simon. Welcome back. What country are you from? Friend.

  28. Davy on Sat, 23rd Feb 2019 12:23 pm 

    “BTW Simon. Welcome back. What country are you from? Friend. Brexit country, or not.
    At any rate from the UK.”

    No he is not clogged. He may live in Ireland now but he is from France.

  29. Simon on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 11:08 am 

    Cloggie/Dave

    Just call me Euro Trash 🙂

    Simon

  30. The Truth Shall Set You Free on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 11:52 am 

    Go Speed Racer

    You made much more sense when you limited your comments to the benefits of burning furniture.

    Why do you remind me of that 80s anti-drug commercial that showed an egg in a hot skillet and compared this to your brain on drugs?

    Don’t get all hot under the collar…… just askin’.

  31. JuanP sock puppet on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 12:50 pm 

    The Truth Shall Set You Free on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 11:52 am

    Speeder, this is another juanP sock puppet. He likes to use this one I guess because lunatics talk like this.

  32. The real JuanP on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 12:53 pm 

    JuanP on Thu, 30th Jun 2016 4:56 pm
    I think I could use my antisocial, psychopathic, sociopathic skills to convince people to vote for Trump. I can be very convincing when I want and I am excellent at manipulating people.
    JuanP on Sun, 30th Aug 2015 5:40 am
    …then you simply have a higher opinion of humans than I do. But what can I do? I am after all an admitted antisocial misanthrope. I just think most people suck!
    JuanP on Fri, 12th Aug 2016 10:58 am
    I stopped caring about humanity’s future a long time ago once I realized it was a waste of my time and energy. Now I think that it would be best for life on Earth if we ceased to exist as a species.
    JuanP on Wed, 14th Sep 2016 9:59 pm
    I struggle with the fact that I belong to the same species; I find myself emotionally and intellectually incapable of accepting the fact. That is why I consider myself a sui generis individual rather than a human animal.
    JuanP on Sun, 26th Jun 2016 12:22 am
    As far as I am concerned human beings are a bunch of arrogant and retarded ignorant fools and they deserve what’s coming. Call me selfish if you want, I don’t give a fuck!
    JuanP on Fri, 15th May 2015 11:21 am
    I did therapy for over a decade and most of it was a waste, but I had one therapist for a year who understood my issues and that helped, though I am still thoroughly screwed up.
    JuanP on Tue, 22nd Dec 2015 6:57 am
    They make me smile and happy and give me a brief respite from my cronic and acute depression.
    JuanP on Sun, 17th Aug 2014 8:19 pm
    I have suffered from cronic and acute clinical depression for most of my life, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
    JuanP on Mon, 23rd May 2016 8:53 am
    I was just telling my wife yesterday that I would very willingly give my arms, legs, tongue, eyes, ears, nuts, and dick to experience life like normal people do for just one hour to know what it feels like. I have been a seriously depressed realist since I have a memory. My first memory of my life is of leaning against a tree alone in my kindergarten’s playground looking at all the other kids playing, thinking how stupid their behavior was, and wondering why I wasn’t like them. I basically don’t interact with normal people anymore. They have nothing to offer me and I don’t want to give them anything.

  33. DavySkum on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 1:09 pm 

    Hey Speeder, golly gee, I’m so desperate to make a friend, anyone will do. How about a Davy, fmr-paultard, Speeder three-way.

  34. The Truth Shall Set DavySKUM Free on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 1:15 pm 

    What’s your point, Skum, with the JaunP quotes other than your fixation with JuanP? Many posters on this site would agree with many of his conclusions.

    He who lives in a glass trailer should never throw stones, Skum.

  35. Juanpee sock puppet on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 1:25 pm 

    The Truth Shall Set DavySKUM Free on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 1:15 pm
    DavySkum on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 1:09 pm

    juanpee why are you such a coward that hides behind socks? LOL…pussy

  36. Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 2:52 pm 

    If anyone knows of a good psychiatrist(s) that work cheaply in the Missouri area, please send me a message, or your referral,

    c/o
    The Exceptional one
    Senior Moderator and Neuter-er, PO.com

    PS, I would prefer if they can make house calls. I have an aversion for the outside world, it frightens me. I am smarter and better than the entire world of course, so it is important the world comes to me when I have need of it.

    And no immigrants, ie Filipino’s Mexicans, Russians,Venezuelans, Iranians etc, unless they work for free, then I may consider them. Otherwise, no filthy immigrants need apply.

  37. JuanP identity theft on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 3:05 pm 

    Not Davy

    Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 2:52 pm

  38. Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 3:08 pm 

    Juanpee, why are you such a coward that you have to steal identities? No wonder your family kicked you out and which forced you to migrate to the US. You are just a rotten piece of shit.

  39. intellectual nematode Alert! on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 4:16 pm 

    Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 12:50 pm
    Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 12:53 pm
    Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 1:25 pm
    Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 3:05 pm
    Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 3:08 pm

  40. JuanP on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 4:23 pm 

    This is me: intellectual nematode Alert! on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 4:16 pm

  41. Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 4:40 pm 

    I flushed me a covey!

    LMFAO!

  42. makati1 on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 4:45 pm 

    Give it a rest Davy and get a life. When you find one, you might clue MOB in so he can get one also. Maybe you can get a ” Two-for” deal at Walmart?

  43. More Davy Sock Puppetry on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 4:58 pm 

    Juanpee sock puppet on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 1:25 pm

    “juanpee why are you such a coward that hides behind socks? LOL…pussy”

  44. Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 5:39 pm 

    “Give it a rest Davy and get a life.”

    Yea, makato, you like to promote the scum because he protects you. You are so lonely you come here for your social networking. You like the conflict. Dirty Juanpee is your perfect companion. The conflict makes your boring day seem less so. You have polluted this site for years now. Hopefully you will fade away like old people do.

  45. JuanP on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 5:40 pm 

    This is me:

    More Davy Sock Puppetry on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 4:58 pm

  46. JuanP identity theft on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 5:40 pm 

    Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 4:40 pm I flushed me a covey! LMFAO!

  47. makati1 on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 5:48 pm 

    No Davy, I tell it like it is and you know that you are the biggest problem on this site.

    Totally delusional in your defense of the indefensible US. A rabid Pavlov’s dog. Nothing more.

    There is nothing good about America anymore. It has turned into the biggest terrorist nation on Earth, trying to do the impossible with destruction and murder anywhere it is resisted. A rabid dog that needs to be put down asap. A police state run by the wealthy, not the government. A Third World Banana Republic of the worse kind.

  48. Davy on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 6:08 pm 

    “No Davy, I tell it like it is and you know that you are the biggest problem on this site.”
    Makato, you have been preaching hate and discontent for years now. You constantly brag about yourself, why I have no clue. Between the bragging and the hate speech there is not much for others to say. You are just a washed up old man who moved to a cheap club med dump. The attacks are mainly from you and your friends who are pursuing the rabid anti-Americanism. This is the problem and it is called extremism. You are the most extreme and emotional commenter here. The sooner you are gone the better for this place. Take your two dumbass buddies with you and this place would instantly heal.

    Totally delusional in your defense of the indefensible US. A rabid Pavlov’s dog. Nothing more.
    I will say one thing in reference to dogs, you found a bone with “pavlov’s dog” LOL, give it a rest. You are bad about getting into ruts

    “There is nothing good about America anymore.”
    You are gone that is something good

    “It has turned into the biggest terrorist nation on Earth, trying to do the impossible with destruction and murder anywhere it is resisted. A rabid dog that needs to be put down asap. A police state run by the wealthy, not the government. A Third World Banana Republic of the worse kind.”
    Please spare us the drama

  49. More Davy Projections on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 6:21 pm 

    “You are so lonely you come here for your social networking.”

    “You like the conflict.”

    “The conflict makes your boring day seem less so.”

    “You have polluted this site for years now.”

    “You constantly brag about yourself,”

    “You are the most extreme and emotional commenter here.”

  50. Juanp is a spoiler on Sun, 24th Feb 2019 6:26 pm 

    what’s the matter coward juan, did I hit a cord? LMFAO, you know you are the reason this forum has been trashed since the summer. It was getting bad but you destroyed it. What a fuck wack with your obsessions and your dirty behavior of stealing identities and playing your many personalities through socks.

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