Turning California’s oil fields into energy storage sites

Part of the solution to California’s ambitious decarbonization goals may, ironically enough, be found in the state’s oil patch.

On a 560-acre plot of land in a dusty portion of the San Joaquin Valley, Premier Resource Management LLC has partnered with some of the nation’s top energy laboratories on a pilot program to take an abandoned oil reservoir and convert it to a geothermal power plant that can also store renewable energy underground for weeks at a time, instead of just a few hours.

The electricity at the site could flow to an already existing substation nearby, with the megawatts then dispersed into California’s power grid.

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Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune

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