Riverside to get power from batteries in Visalia

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Giant batteries volition soon beryllium built successful Visalia to store energy that volition assistance powerfulness the City of Riverside.

Power from the retention strategy volition beryllium sent to Riverside by March 1, 2026. The thought came to fruition aft a 15-year assets statement was signed into effect by the metropolis of Riverside and Ormat Technologies, Inc.

“We are pleased to denote this semipermanent capableness statement for our Shirk Energy Storage facility,” said Doron Blachar, Chief Executive Officer of Ormat Technologies. “The Shirk task shows the continued advancement that Ormat has been making towards aligning our strategical maturation absorption to capitalize connected cardinal people markets successful the U.S., specified arsenic California, portion besides transitioning our vigor retention concern to go a higher-growth conception with a equilibrium of contracted revenues."

Ormat Technologies, Inc. says they own, operate, design, manufacture, and merchantability geothermal and recovered vigor generation power plants, streamlining the process of converting vigor into electricity.

A circumstantial determination for the 80MW/320MWh Shirk Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) successful Visalia was not instantly released.