The California Public Utilities Commission authorized cost recovery for Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s battery storage projects totaling about 567 megawatts to meet local capacity requirements, according to a resolution issued on Nov. 9. In January, the commission authorized the utility to hold competitive solicitations for storage or preferred resources to ensure local reliability in areas previously served by Calpine Corporation’s gas-fired plants that are at the risk of retirement. Pacific Gas and Electric will own a 182.5-megawatt project built by Tesla Inc. Dynegy Inc., Hummingbird Energy Storage LLC, and Micronoc Inc. will own the other three projects sized 300 megawatts, 75 megawatts, and 10 megawatts, respectively. Pacific Gas and Electric is a subsidiary of PG&E Corp. Dynegy is a subsidiary of Vistra Energy Corp.