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ELLINWOOD Meeting Tuesday, the Ellinwood City Council received updates from city staff regarding expected cost related to the energy crisis in mid-February caused by extreme cold weather. City Administrator Chris Komarek said there are still several unknown variables when it comes to expenses.
“This is related to both the wholesale purchase of power and the usage within our own infrastructure,” said Komarek. “One of the main issues at hand will be the bills we will be sending to our citizens and businesses on April 1.” He added that, depending on what the increase might be, the city will need to decide on the type of adjustme
In the midst of a freeze, Hillsboro gets update
HILLSBORO In the grips of the worst cold in decades, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 16, the Hillsboro City Council heard from Mark Chesney of Kansas Power Pool with an update on power and on the city’s power meter reader project.
Chesney said “a heck of a lot” of electricity is generated using natural gas, rather than coal, and gas prices rolled down to electric companies.
Chesney commented the prices of natural gas were “breathtakingly expensive,” while “the sport market price for electricity makes you swallow hard.”
While Hillsboro was not subject to one of the rolling blackouts across the Midwest, Chesney said cities that did experience blackouts had “very little notice. Some cities got between zero and five minutes notice before the power was interrupted and saw a duration of up to 120 minutes. This was not comfortable. It can be explained; it’s not at all comfortable.”
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A FlexGen 10MW battery storage project near Houston, Texas. Image: FlexGen.
While it might be more than 200 times smaller than the world’s biggest battery energy storage system so far, a 1MW / 5.1MWh project awarded to technology provider FlexGen is expected to be the biggest of its kind in the US state of Kansas.
The 300MW / 1,200MWh Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California went into operation just before the end of last year and was officially announced as up and running at the beginning of this one. Moss Landing’s output serves California investor-owned utility (IOU) Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) through long term contracts.
FlexGen, KPP Team Up to Deliver Kansas Solomon Energy Storage Center
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DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ FlexGen, a leading energy storage technology company, announced that it is partnering with The Kansas Power Pool (KPP), to design, build and operate the Solomon Energy Storage Center in Minneapolis, Kansas. KPP is a member-driven public power organization which procures energy and transmission service for community-owned electric utilities across Kansas.
FlexGen Batteries help utilities like the Kansas Power Pool power up when the grid needs it the most. KPP chose FlexGen to deliver Kansas Solomon Energy Storage Center, providing 1 MW of power to utility members.