Capturing the sun: Solar project quadruples its battery storage to keep lights on in Utah

Workers for Sundt Renewables install solar panels at the Appaloosa solar project near Cedar City, which recently started generating power. The same company will install the Green RIver Energy Center, which will include Utah's largest lithium battery array.

The project’s battery array will be able to store 1,600 megawatt hours of electricity, four times the original 400 megawatt hours. It also is doubling the power that the project can generate from the batteries, rising from 200 megawatts to 400 megawatts. That allows the batteries to deliver a lot of power over a couple of hours or less power over eight hours or more.

Theresa Foxley, chief of staff for rPlus, said she has been “highly focused” on bringing in Sandbrook’s funding to help not just Green River but also other rPlus projects. Sandbrook has invested more than $4 billion in clean energy projects, much of it in Europe. Utah's largest solar farm and battery project will sit on 3,200 acres north of Moore in Emery County.

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