Encore Renewable Energy has energized South Avenue Storage, a 2-MW, 8-MWh utility-scale battery vitality storage system, positioned subsequent to the 5-MWAC South Avenue Photo voltaic challenge in Middlebury, Vermont. South Avenue Storage is Encore’s first vitality storage challenge and can present very important demand mitigation companies and value financial savings to Inexperienced Mountain Energy (GMP) and its prospects.
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“The previous few years of intense storms and document warmth have demonstrated the significance of a reliable electrical grid, and we’d like extra vitality storage for that,” stated Chad Farrell, founder and co-CEO of Encore. “Fortunately there are main utilities like Inexperienced Mountain Energy, who’ve lengthy understood the worth of regionally sited vitality storage for holding our electrical energy provide clear and reasonably priced.”
The lithium-ion battery programs for this challenge had been supplied by KORE Energy. KORE, a home producer of battery vitality storage programs, constructed the items at its facility in Waterbury. KORE’s operation’s workforce can even be coordinating with Encore to watch the system’s efficiency.
“The South Avenue Storage challenge is a mannequin of well-orchestrated grid modernization that’s made doable when a developer, a producer and a utility share the imaginative and prescient of delivering protected, dependable, clear energy to prospects,” stated Jay Bellows, CEO of KORE Energy. “By this coordination the groups from Encore, KORE and Inexperienced Mountain Energy will ship reasonably priced energy that’s there when it’s wanted.”
The two-MW vitality system at South Avenue provides to GMP’s rising community of saved vitality, now over 75 MW, making it Vermont’s largest supply of dispatchable energy. The storage system joins the South Avenue Photo voltaic challenge in supporting Middlebury Faculty’s renewable vitality targets.
“When Vermont organizations work collectively, nice issues occur for communities and prospects. This challenge will assist ship decrease energy prices throughout costly peaks, by sending saved clear Vermont vitality again to the grid when it’s wanted most,” stated Mari McClure, GMP’s President and CEO.
Because the local weather continues to heat, peak demand occasions like June’s warmth wave will turn out to be extra prevalent; vitality storage offers the flexibility to retailer additional vitality from instances when electrical energy demand is decrease to put it to use when it’s most wanted.
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