Henry Guan and Waylon Clark, members of the Sandia Energy Storage Demonstrations Projects team, along with Dr. Ray Byrne, Sandia Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department Manager, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, August 16, 2024, for the Vermont Electric Cooperative/Green Mountain Power North Troy Battery Energy Storage Demonstration Project. Also in attendance was Dr. Imre Gyuk, Chief Scientist for the DOE Office of Electricity, Energy Storage Division. Both Dr. Byrne and Dr. Gyuk spoke at the ceremony about the importance of the project to Sandia and DOE respectively.
The project was a collective effort between Green Mountain Power and the Vermont Electric Cooperative and in partnership with Sandia’s Energy Storage Demonstrations Program and DOE-OE’s Energy Storage Division. The project cost over $5M, with $2M coming from DOE through the Sandia Demonstrations program. This project is significant as it will demonstrate how behind-the-meter energy storage can be beneficial at the transmission grid level.
The battery will allow renewables (i.e. the Kingdom Community Wind project) connected to the grid to continue to operate in conditions that would normally require the renewables to be curtailed or turned off. The battery system will also have the benefit of using the stored energy to reduce system peak demand on the ISO New England and Vermont system grids, with these benefits directly accruing to Vermont retail customers.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity (OE), Energy Storage Division.
Further reading:
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