A North Carolina-based group that provides battery energy storage and software technology is set to co-locate 420 MWh of storage at four natural gas-fired facilities in California.
Durham-headquartered FlexGen Power Systems on Jan. 17 said it would provide energy storage to Middle River Power (MRP), a Chicago, Illinois-based independent power company. MRP was created in 2016 to operate and manage power generation assets acquired and developed by Avenue Capital through Avenue’s managed investment funds.
The California projects will have energy storage co-located with simple cycle gas-fired peaking plants. The facilities will share interconnection to the state’s power grid. FlexGen said the batteries would be used to store excess energy from solar power resources during the day, and could then be used to support electricity demand during the evening and nighttime…
Energy Storage Being Added to California Gas-Fired Peaker Plants
