Mike Heier, 63, zips through his private, gated community west of Calgary in a golf cart, touring the area that features $750,000 cottages and $300,000 vacant building lots at the eastern end of the Ghost Lake reservoir.Heier makes a stop on the embankment overlooking Ghost Lake and the Bow River. He points to a nine-acre (3.6 ha.) site where TransAlta is hoping to build a 180-megawatt battery energy storage system, believed to be the largest of its kind in the province.The batteries will be charged by the nearby hydroelectric dam. About 360 megawatt-hours of electricity will be stored and then sold to the provincial grid during periods of peak demand.Heier, speaking on behalf of approximately 60 other homeowners in the Cottage Club development, says TransAlta has chosen the wrong site for the lithium-ion batteries, which have failed and caught fire in a number of incidents…
Ghost Lake residents raise concerns about TransAlta energy storage system
