Energy Vault Holdings has signed the Stanton Energy Storage System (SESS) EPC contract with Wellhead Electric Company and W Power, a woman-owned business enterprise that has developed and owned power generation facilities in California.
The project will be operated by Wellhead Services, Inc., one of the most experienced developers and operators of innovative energy-generation and energy-storage facilities in California.
Energy Vault, based in Sacramento, Calif., will begin deployment immediately in 2022 of a 275.2 megawatt hour (MWh) battery storage project at W Power’s Energy Reliability Center in Stanton, Calif.. The project is on an accelerated timeline to meet critical power needs for Southern California and is expected to be completed in mid-2023. Energy Vault also will support W Power and Wellhead with development and deployment of future energy storage projects in California representing more than 600 MWh of additional capacity in the near term.