NREMC, a rural utility cooperative in Indiana, has just announced that it is deploying 108MWh of battery storage in a five-year project with energy storage technology and solutions provider FlexGen.
NREMC – Northeastern Rural Electric Membership Corporation – said that the full 108MWh of projects that it is partnering with FlexGen for will help reduce overall grid demand during peak times and lower consumers’ electricity rates while also providing backup power to some of its networks when weather or other events cause disruptions. The energy storage systems are projected to save consumers over US$35 million over 20 years, NREMC claimed.
NREMC is the third largest member-owned electric distribution cooperative in Indiana, serving more than 30,000 households and businesses. FlexGen will begin by working on two projects in the state’s Allen County and in Whitley County with a combined 14MW of output and 21.6MWh and 25.2MWh of capacity split across them, to be completed and commissioned by next summer.
FlexGen pointed out in a press release that each will be slightly larger than the state’s biggest battery project built to date, a 20MWh system commissioned by utility Indianapolis Power & Light in 2016. The new systems will be built on FlexGen’s operating software platform for energy management, Hybrid OS, which the company claimed will enable power to be exported to the grid seamlessly during peak demand periods or during weather-related disruptions. The batteries will charge from the grid when prices are lower, during off-peak times.
In a recent interview for our technical journal PV Tech Power, FlexGen’s chief operating officer Alan Grosse said that many people might be surprised to see that his company now considers Indiana to be one of the most important state-level markets in the US energy storage industry.
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