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Report Notes Continued Growth of Hybrid Power Plants

Hybrid power plants continue to be deployed across the U.S., with almost 300 such facilities (all with 1 MW or more of generation capacity) operating at the end of last year.

An August 2022 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, based on research funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) and its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, along with the Wind Energy Technologies Office and Solar Energy Technologies Office, showed there were 140 photovoltaic (PV) solar+storage plants in operation. Those plants account for 2.2 GW of energy storage capacity, and 7 GWh of storage energy, far more than any other type of hybrid configuration.

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