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Battery plants have established themselves in the sunny Southwest, but this week was the first time they won big in New England.
San Francisco-based developer Plus Power won two bids in the latest capacity auction held by the New England ISO, which operates the transmission grid and competitive power markets in six Northeastern states. That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand. And they did it without any help from federal tax credits because none of them apply to standalone batteries.
Plus Power now needs to build the plants: a 150-megawatt/300-megawatt-hour system near a cranberry bog south of Boston, Massachusetts and a 175-megawatt/350-megawatt-hour battery in Gorham, Maine. The seven-year capacity contracts start in June 2024.
Energy storage startup Powin Energy has raised more than $100 million in equity investment to compete with better-funded rivals in the large-scale grid battery market.
Powin buys battery cells and hooks them up with proprietary software controls and ancillary equipment to produce full-fledged power plants. It competes in the upper echelons of the energy storage integration market with the likes of Tesla, Fluence and Wärtsilä.
But those competitors are storage businesses nestled within billion-dollar, publicly traded enterprises. Powin is a bootstrapped company based amid the evergreens of Tualatin, Oregon that managed to build some 600 megawatt-hours of storage on its own.
By JAY STRAFFORD
FOR THE FREE LANCEâSTAR
A popular concept in crime fiction revolves around the discovery that someone thought to be the victim of a serial killer was murdered by someone else.
Mundane? Decidedly not in
âShed No Tearsâ (Harper, $26.99, 368 pages), the third entry in Caz Frearâs series featuring Detective Constable Catrina âCatâ Kinsella of the London police.
In 2012, the disappearance of Holly Kemp was thought to be the work of Christopher Masters, who confessed to murdering three previous young women, but vacillated on whether he was responsible for Hollyâs death.
Six years later, her remains are found. Unlike the other killings, she was fatally shot, not strangled, and clothed, not naked.