{"id":251565,"date":"2024-05-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/can-a-california-oilfield-be-retrofitted-to-store-solar-energy\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:18:18","slug":"can-a-california-oilfield-be-retrofitted-to-store-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/can-a-california-oilfield-be-retrofitted-to-store-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a California Oilfield Be Retrofitted to Store Solar Energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__block article__block--textBlock article__block--drop-cap article__block--drop-cap-d\">\n<p>Down on the south end of California\u2019s San Joaquin Valley, oil rigs have plumbed the earth like flocks of blackened drinking birds for more than a century. Now, they\u2019re fast becoming vestiges of a bygone era. Kern County still produces nearly three-quarters of the state\u2019s oil and gas, but California\u2019s push to decarbonize its energy grid is putting these rigs and the people who operate them out of work. Their disappearance might come as a death knell to the communities that have long depended on bringing energy up to the surface; but now, those same oilfields could offer new life by sending energy back underground.<\/p>\n<p>Ample sunlight and tens of thousands of abandoned oil wells and experienced oilfield workers have made Kern County the focus of a new battery-storage technology. The plan is to retrofit depleted oil wells to store&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/kern-county-oil-solar-thermal-geothermal-energy-storage\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at e360.yale.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down on the south end of California\u2019s San Joaquin Valley, oil rigs have plumbed the earth like flocks of blackened drinking birds for more than a century. Now, they\u2019re fast becoming vestiges of a bygone era. Kern County still produces nearly three-quarters of the state\u2019s oil and gas, but California\u2019s push to decarbonize its energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":251566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can a California Oilfield Be Retrofitted to Store Solar Energy? - Republic of Green News<\/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:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/kern-county-oil-solar-thermal-geothermal-energy-storage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can a California Oilfield Be Retrofitted to Store Solar Energy?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Down on the south end of California\u2019s San Joaquin Valley, oil rigs have plumbed the earth like flocks of blackened drinking birds for more than a century. 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