Convergent Energy + Power supplying 5MW/15MWh BESS to Massachusetts utility

Power storage options supplier Convergent Power + Energy willy provide Massachusetts utility Holyoke Fuel & Electrical (HG&E) with a 5MW/15MWh battery power storage system (BESS).

Convergent introduced the plans to offer the municipally-owned utility with the BESS on 14 April. The challenge is predicted to stabilise prices for HG&E prospects within the context of rising power costs and will come on-line in 2023.

The developer will personal and function the BESS utilizing its proprietary power storage intelligence platform, PEAK IQ. Convergent stated the BESS will dispatch at strategic instances, storing power when it’s most cost-effective and cleanest and discharging power to displace the costliest and carbon-intensive durations.

Convergent describes itself as “one of many unique gamers within the power storage sectors” with over US$400m invested in tasks to-date throughout North America. It not too long ago introduced two similarly-sized BESS tasks on-line in California for investor-owned utility Southern California Edison (SCE).

The northeast US state’s Photo voltaic Massachusett’s Renewable Goal (SMART) programme incentivises households to put money into residential or group photo voltaic and has helped drive the colocated storage market and up to date storage information within the state has principally been round colocated tasks.

This consists of Nexamp’s group photo voltaic being commissioned final month, a Blackrock-owned developer shopping for six tasks totalling 88MWh of storage and Italy-headquartered NOAH’s 10MWh system delivered in Bellingham. Convergent’s challenge seems to be a standalone website with no point out of colocated photo voltaic.

The New England state enacted Home Invoice 4857 in August 2018 which directed the Massachusetts Division of Power Sources to set an power storage goal of 1,000 MWh by 2025. It’s at present a few third of the best way based on the state authorities’s web site.

The state’s three electrical energy utilities which function the grid, Nationwide Grid, Eversource and Unitil, report storage deployments each February (Nationwide Grid is a part of the UK grid operator).

As of February 2022, Nationwide Grid had deployed 329MWh, Eversource had deployed 20MW/44MWh whereas Unitil had deployed 2.12MW/4.23MWh. Nationwide Grid’s pipeline totals 666MW/843MWh, Eversource has 127MW/175MWh deliberate, whereas Unitil goals to deploy 18.14MW/85.04MWh.