The new energy storage system uses 44 Tesla batteries and is the biggest of its kind in Santa Barbara County.
Chris Taylor, the CEO of GridStor, who developed and own the 25,000 square foot facility, says it will be able to store enough power to supply the equivalent of all of Goleta’s residential customers for up to four hours in a black out.
“They are very vulnerable to interruptions in grid power as they’re serviced by just one set of lines coming up through the mountains during the day,” said Taylor.
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