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| Coordinates | 32°34′14″N 116°54′39″W / 32.5706°N 116.9108°W |
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Gateway Energy Storage is a large-scale battery storage power station, operated by grid infrastructure developer LS Power. It has 250 MW of power and a storage capacity of 250 MWh (1 hour), using lithium-ion battery cells from LG Chem.[1][2][3]
The purpose of the battery is to provide power during times of peak demand after being charged partly with solar power during the day.[3]
It is located next to the Pio Pico and Otay Mesa (1 GW combined) natural gas-fired power stations in Otay Mesa, California, on the outskirts of San Diego, at the Mexican border.
In May 2024, a section of the battery storage station burned over a five-day period. The fire was centered in one of seven buildings at the 250-megawatt site, which houses several lithium-ion batteries designed to support California's power grid. Evacuation orders and warnings were put in place in the immediate vicinity of the facility, an area that includes several businesses.[4][5] The fire burned for five days due to continuous reignition from the batteries. [6] LS Power told the San Diego Union-Tribune in June 2024 that it was trying to figure out the precise cause of the fire and assessing the damage to the 95,000 square-foot facility that stores about 6,700 racks of batteries.[7]
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- ^ Power, L. S. "LS Power Energizes Largest Battery Storage Project in the World, The 250 MW Gateway Project in California". www.prnewswire.com.
- ^ a b Spector, Julian (19 August 2020). "LS Power Energizes World's Biggest Battery, Just in Time for California's Heat Wave". www.greentechmedia.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020.
- ^ "Battery fire at storage facility in Otay Mesa keeps reigniting". San Diego Union-Tribune. 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
- ^ Service, City News; Bravo • •, Christina (2024-05-18). "Lithium-ion fire at Otay Mesa storage complex flares up, prompting evacuations". NBC 7 San Diego. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
- ^ Sanderson, Cosmo (20 May 2024). "Fire burns for five days at huge lithium-ion energy storage facility". rechargenews.com.
- ^ "Fire in Otay Mesa puts battery storage projects under scrutiny and neighborhoods on edge". San Diego Union-Tribune. 2024-06-20. Retrieved 2024-09-07.