{"id":117498,"date":"2020-08-31T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T00:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/?p=117498"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:16:54","slug":"sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SMA inverters are now helping to power the largest battery project in the world, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/ls-power-energizes-worlds-biggest-battery-near-san-diego-just-in-time-for-heatwave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent report from Greentech Media<\/a>. The Gateway Energy Storage Project, which is located near San Diego, California, went live in June and is managed by grid infrastructure developer LS Power. It is expected to become an important source of power for the electrical grid in Southern California.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project is in a 70,000-square-foot building and is equipped with 98 SMA inverters as well as batteries from NEC Energy Solutions. The developers plan to expand the project to 250 megawatts, Greentech Media said, meaning it will have a four-hour duration.<\/p>\n<p>The system is already proving its value. During California\u2019s recent heatwave, the Gateway Energy Storage project played an important role in helping to meet peak demand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/say-hello-to-the-new-biggest-battery-in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greentech Media reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more project details read the full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/say-hello-to-the-new-biggest-battery-in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;117498&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;5\\\/5 - (1 vote)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;114.5&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 114.5px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 17.6px;\">\n            5\/5 - (1 vote)    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class='printomatic pom-default ' id='id6776'  data-print_target='article'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMA inverters are now helping to power the largest battery project in the world, according to a recent report from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":117499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1314,1714],"tags":[1695,1612],"class_list":["post-117498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company","category-news","tag-solar-and-storage","tag-utility-scale"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S - Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S - Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SMA inverters are now helping to power the largest battery project in the world, according to a recent report from...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/SMASolarTechnology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-01T00:23:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-27T15:16:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LS_Power_Gateway_Battery_Energy_Storage_California_XL_Credit_LS_Power_721_420_80_s_c1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"721\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Trish Moratto\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SMAsolar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SMAsolar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Trish Moratto\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/\",\"name\":\"SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S - Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LS_Power_Gateway_Battery_Energy_Storage_California_XL_Credit_LS_Power_721_420_80_s_c1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-01T00:23:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-27T15:16:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/9ee0619f32a2058dda939960fb22c748\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LS_Power_Gateway_Battery_Energy_Storage_California_XL_Credit_LS_Power_721_420_80_s_c1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LS_Power_Gateway_Battery_Energy_Storage_California_XL_Credit_LS_Power_721_420_80_s_c1.jpg\",\"width\":721,\"height\":420,\"caption\":\"Photo Credit: LS Power\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/\",\"name\":\"Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/9ee0619f32a2058dda939960fb22c748\",\"name\":\"Trish Moratto\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/TrishHeadshotBlur-180x180.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/TrishHeadshotBlur-180x180.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Trish Moratto\"},\"description\":\"Former Marketing Program Manager at SMA America\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/author\/alexandra-alejandro\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S - Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S - Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog","og_description":"SMA inverters are now helping to power the largest battery project in the world, according to a recent report from...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/","og_site_name":"Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/facebook.com\/SMASolarTechnology","article_published_time":"2020-09-01T00:23:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-10-27T15:16:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":721,"height":420,"url":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LS_Power_Gateway_Battery_Energy_Storage_California_XL_Credit_LS_Power_721_420_80_s_c1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Trish Moratto","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SMAsolar","twitter_site":"@SMAsolar","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Trish Moratto","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/","url":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/","name":"SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S - Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LS_Power_Gateway_Battery_Energy_Storage_California_XL_Credit_LS_Power_721_420_80_s_c1.jpg","datePublished":"2020-09-01T00:23:31+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-27T15:16:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/9ee0619f32a2058dda939960fb22c748"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LS_Power_Gateway_Battery_Energy_Storage_California_XL_Credit_LS_Power_721_420_80_s_c1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LS_Power_Gateway_Battery_Energy_Storage_California_XL_Credit_LS_Power_721_420_80_s_c1.jpg","width":721,"height":420,"caption":"Photo Credit: LS Power"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/sma-inverters-used-in-the-most-powerful-energy-storage-project-in-the-u-s\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"SMA Inverters used in the Most Powerful Energy Storage Project in the U.S"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/","name":"Sunny. SMA Corporate Blog","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/9ee0619f32a2058dda939960fb22c748","name":"Trish Moratto","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/TrishHeadshotBlur-180x180.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/TrishHeadshotBlur-180x180.jpg","caption":"Trish Moratto"},"description":"Former Marketing Program Manager at SMA America","url":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/author\/alexandra-alejandro\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}