The systems built for Consumers Energy will be located within Circuit West, a 13-block district on the west side of Grand Rapids. It includes two independent 280-kW/340-kWh DSS energy storage systems and NEC’s AEROS controls software.
“Today, there is very little storage on the grid, so electricity is generated just moments before you use it,” said Garrick Rochow, Consumers Energy’s senior vice president of operations. “With large batteries like NEC’s energy storage solution, we will make our grid more efficient, effective and sustainable. It’s a critical part of Michigan’s energy future and it’s happening here at Circuit West.”
Consumers has committed to installing new electricity generation and distribution technology in a neighborhood where new building construction is going up. The storage system was design with the flexibility to be increased to 1MWh capacity or more.
“As the market for energy storage continues to grow, more customers are entering the market to test the viability of energy storage in their own applications. We know the many benefits of energy storage having been in the business for more than 12 years but it’s also common for customers new to storage to initially take a pilot approach,” said Steve Fludder, CEO for NEC Energy Solutions. “We are happy to be working with Consumers Energy on test projects like this and we anticipate this will lead to greater deployment of valuable storage across their service territory.”
NEC has been awarded several major energy storage projects in the past six months. In November, The company was picked to install two battery projects totaling 19 MW in the United Kingdom, including London’s Port of Tilbury and Lower Road in Brentwood, Essex.
Two months earlier, NEC announced a joint venture with Key Capture Energy to work on a 20-MW battery storage project in Saratoga County, New York.
Consumers Energy provides natural gas and electricity to 6.6 million Michigan customers.
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