Brokenburg Battery Energy Storage System

2MWac | 8MWh

Spotsylvania, Virginia

Owner: Rappahannock Electric Cooperative

Dry Bridge Energy Center Battery Storage Project

20 MWac | 80 MWh

Chesterfield County, Virginia

Owner: Dominion Energy Virginia

Photo Courtesy of Dominion Energy

Yadkins Energy Center Battery Storage Project

100 MWac | 400 MWh

Chesapeake, Virginia

Owner: Aypa Power

Shands Energy Center Battery Storage Project

15.7 MWac | 62.8 MWh

Sussex County, Virginia

Owner: Dominion Energy Virginia

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.