Across the United States, battery energy storage is rapidly emerging from a niche technology into mainstream grid infrastructure. . Energy storage reduces energy waste, improves grid efficiency, limits costly energy imports, prevents and minimizes power outages, and allows the grid to use more affordable clean energy resources—all of which reduce energy costs for consumers. Energy storage prevents or reduces the risk of. . The full completion and commercial operation of the Edwards & Sanborn project in California was announced in January 2024. The project in Kern County pairs 875MWdc of solar PV and 3,287MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, the world's largest. An earlier portion of the project came. . The installation would be the Canadian company's first grid-scale deployment of its “advanced compressed-air energy storage” technology. The expansion of renewable energy and. .