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East Point Energy develops standalone energy storage systems. Here you can learn more about what our projects look like, how they work, and the many ways these systems can make our electric grid more renewable, resilient, and affordable.
OUR PROJECTS
10 MW | 20 MWh
Frio County, TX
Owner: East Point Energy
Photo Courtesy of TruGrid
Dry Bridge Energy Center Battery Storage Project
20 MWac | 80 MWh
Chesterfield County, Virginia
Owner: Dominion Energy Virginia
Photo Courtesy of Dominion Energy
Brokenburg Battery Energy Storage System
2MWac | 8MWh
Spotsylvania, Virginia
Owner: Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
Shands Energy Center Battery Storage Project
15.7 MWac | 62.8 MWh
Sussex County, Virginia
Owner: Dominion Energy Virginia
HOW ENERGY STORAGE CAN HELP
Stabilizing the Grid
Wind and solar are intermittent resources. Energy storage can store excess energy produced from wind and solar when a community may not need it, and dispatch that energy when the community does. This allows communities to rely on energy produced by wind and solar even when it isn’t windy or sunny.
Peak Demand Reduction
Energy storage projects can be charged during low-demand periods and later dispatched during peak demand times. This can reduce the cost to customers, as well as reduce the need for gas peaker plants, which are facilities that exist solely to assist in these peak demand times.
Lower Energy Costs
A utility, municipality, or cooperative can pass along savings to its customers using a battery storage system to purchase and store electricity at lower (off peak) prices, and distribute that electricity at a later time when the price to purchase electricity would be high.
Fast Response
Conventional power plants aren’t able to respond quickly to constant demand changes in energy, especially with the increased penetration of distributed energy sources like wind and solar. Energy storage are able to respond to these changes rapidly.
Electric Service Reliability
Energy storage projects can be used to provide energy during outage periods and severe weather events.
Transmission & Distribution
System Deferral
Installing an energy storage system can help prevent the need for new large scale energy generation and distribution facilities to be built.
An informational video made by Rappahannock Electric Cooperative about the energy storage project that East Point Energy helped them to develop.
Each project is a little bit different. This is an example of what one might look like.
OTHER RESOURCES
Click the links below to explore some great resources about Energy Storage.
➤ American Clean Power (ACP): Why Energy Storage
Information on the technologies, applications, and benefits of energy storage
➤ Utility Dive: Energy Storage
An archive of articles about energy storage
➤ National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Grid-Scale Battery Storage FAQ
An excellent summary of grid-scale battery storage