San Antonio’s New Battery Bet Comes Just as CPS Outages Get Longer

OCI Energy and CPS Energy have started construction on a 120-megawatt battery storage project in southeastern Bexar County, moving a long-planned grid resource into the build phase as San Antonio’s public utility deals with longer outages and rising power demand. The Alamo City Battery Energy Storage System, or BESS, is meant to charge when power is available and discharge when electricity demand is high.