{"id":7880,"date":"2014-11-12T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2014-11-12T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:38:35","slug":"giant-batteries-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/giant-batteries-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Batteries in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An example of Clean Energy marching forward:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc., better known as RES Americas, said Tuesday it will build two of the largest commercial-sized energy storage projects in North America.<\/p>\n<p>RES, a wind farm developer based in Broomfield, Colorado, said the two projects will be built outside of Chicago, and once completed in 2015, will be capable of storing a total of 19.8 megawatts of power to support the local Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) electricity grid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These batteries will be on line, or should I say, inserted into the back of Chicago behind a giant plastic plate held in by a huge screw (I assume). by August 2015, and they will operate for ten years.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/chicago\/news\/2014\/11\/11\/res-americas-to-build-big-battery-storage-projects.html\">Details here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An example of Clean Energy marching forward: Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc., better known as RES Americas, said Tuesday it will build two of the largest commercial-sized energy storage projects in North America. RES, a wind farm developer based in Broomfield, Colorado, said the two projects will be built outside of Chicago, and once completed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/giant-batteries-in-chicago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giant Batteries in Chicago<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[721,708,5020,720],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-236","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7881,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}