Dive Summary:
- The Virginia-based AES Energy Storage company will bring an additional 40 megawatts (MW) of advanced energy storage resources to PJM Interconnection serving 60 million people in the U.S. Northeast and Midwest.
- Located at Dayton Power and Light’s (DP&L) Tait generating station, just south of Dayton, Ohio, the AES battery array will provide frequency regulation service to the PJM market and bring new energy technology to Ohio that is safe, reliable, does not bear direct emissions and does not require water. This facility is the first of its kind in the state.
- The battery array will connect through the station, have an independent agreement with PJM, and come online September 2013.
From the article:
"...it will bring the company’s storage resources in PJM to more than 100 MW, all operating on AES’ patented control system, sOS™. This will be the third project within PJM to run on the software and the fifth overall. The PJM-specific module of sOS™ employs AES market expertise and PJM-specific operating experience to most efficiently control the array within the market’s unique dispatch model. This extensible AES sOS™ platform has been proven in multiple commercial settings and with multiple underlying battery technologies."