How To Know What Your Utility Is Up To And Get Involved
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This winter, many Bloomington residents were shocked to see their Duke Energy bills had gone up significantly. Though most of it was due to the very cold temperatures we had, some residents weren’t aware that Duke Energy had also increased its rates.
“So it was a significantly lower increase than what the utility had asked for, still an increase nonetheless. And when you combine that with the really cold snap of weather that we ve had the last several weeks, that is the recipe for a higher bill,” said Anthony Swinger, a spokesman for the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor.
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Published: 18 Dec 2020, 07:06
By:
Andy Colthorpe
One of a number of grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) projects FlexGen has built in Texas. Image: FlexGen.
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.