ArcLight Capital Partners said a few days ago that it has acquired a 185MW wind farm and an 80MW battery energy storage system (BESS) hybrid deployment project from Glide Path Power Solutions.
ArcLight has entered into an agreement with Glidepath through its subsidiary Sequitur Renewables. The investor will acquire five wind farms in Pennsylvania and West Virginia that sell power to grid operator PJM Corp.'s commercial market.
In addition to investing in the acquisition of wind farms, Sequitur Renewables was awarded the opportunity to develop and deploy an 80MWh battery energy storage system, which it described as an "ancillary" project to its wind portfolio, but did not provide the energy storage system Details on the expected completion date also did not indicate whether it will be co-located with wind power facilities.
Usually, the installed capacity of wind power projects is much higher than that of battery energy storage systems, and wind power generation is highly variable. If the battery energy system is deployed in co-location, more batteries need to be deployed, and frequent charging and discharging will shorten the time. battery life, so co-location of battery energy storage systems with wind power generation facilities is not as common as co-location with solar power generation facilities.
PJM's operations include Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
Sequitur Renewables, which recently announced milestones in developments related to other large-scale battery storage projects, said its conventional thermal power plant sites are the best places to deploy these portfolios. Since interconnection queues are one of the main challenges of battery energy storage projects, it is advantageous to leverage the existing interconnection and on-site infrastructure of large power plants.
For example, Generation Bridge recently completed an interconnection study for its 335MWh Long Beach PierS battery storage project in Long Beach, California. And plans by Eastern Generation to deploy the 540MWh LuysterCreek battery storage project in New York State recently won New York regulatory approval.
