Dive Summary:
- Samsung SDI and Xtreme Power have been selected by the Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET) to install a battery energy storage system in Lubbock, Texas.
- The system will be installed at a $27 million demonstration project that is owned and operated by South Plains Electric Cooperative and is one of several projects tasked with integrating wind into the grid.
- The project is funded jointly by CCET and the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
From the article:
The BESS will be connected to SPEC's distribution grid at the Reese Technology Center as part of an ongoing wind technology program managed by GroupNIRE and Texas Tech University. The BESS will focus on combing utility-scale energy storage with wind generation. According to the companies, potential uses for the BESS include mitigating intermittent fluctuations of a number of nearby wind turbines, regulating the distribution bus voltage, serving as spinning reserve, and providing frequency support during the loss of generation. ...