The US arm of Chinese company Sungrow has secured a contract to supply a fully integrated energy storage system to the 100MW Chisholm Grid project in the state of Texas.
Chisholm Grid has been under construction since August and will be one of the largest battery energy storage facilities in Texas when work onsite at Fort Worth is completed this June.
The facility, utilising industry NMC battery technology, will generate revenue from the sale of energy and grid stabilisation services to the ERCOT wholesale electricity market.
Chisholm is owned by Astral Electricity and developed by Able Grid Infrastructure Holdings, a joint venture between Able Grid and MAP RE/ES.
Sungrow Supplies a 100 MW Energy Storage Project in Texas
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FORT WORTH, TX., Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced that it has forged a contract to supply its fully integrated Energy Storage System to the 100 MWac Chisholm Grid project in Fort Worth, Texas. Chisholm Grid has been under construction since August of 2020 and will be one of the largest battery energy storage facilities in Texas when work onsite is completed this June. The facility, utilizing industry-leading NMC battery technology, will generate revenue from the sale of energy and ancillary services to the ERCOT wholesale electricity market.
Published: 6 Jan 2021, 07:49
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Andy Colthorpe
One of a number of FlexGen battery storage projects already in operation in Texas, several of which were the same size and capacity as this one (10MW / 11MWh) and help stabilise electricity supply for communities near Houston. Image: FlexGen.
Update 7 January 2020: In response to some queries from Energy-Storage.news, a FlexGen representative said that the battery storage systems will be 110MW / 110MWh each, both putting 100MW of usable resource onto the grid and that they will utilise 280Ah CATL lithium iron phosphate large format battery cells. The representative also said that Josh Prueher and Doug Moorehead are now full-time with IPP Broad Reach Power, having left FlexGen.