Commercial Battery Projects

Getting all of our power from renewable energy such as solar and wind is a noble goal, but these energy providers only produce electricity when the sun is out or the wind is blowing. The third leg of the renewable energy platform has always been battery storage. For example, Solar panels collect sun and generate energy mostly between the hours of 10:00 am and 3:00 pm in the northeast. But peak energy consumption is usually between 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm. Batteries charging during the early morning hours off the grid, or from renewable energy sources during the day, are able to discharge power to the grid during these critical peak demand hours and provide utility customers with their needed energy. And, as our country moves more quickly to much more electrical energy consumption, batteries are becoming an even more critical component.

Future Energy Needs Require Innovative Solutions

Solway currently has over a dozen projects that provide stand-alone batteries to the grid system to help our push to a full renewable energy system. These batteries have a nameplate of 5 megawatts and will provide 20 megawatts of power daily to the grid over a four-hour period. We estimate that, in Massachusetts alone, 2,200 of these batteries will be necessary for current and coming increase in electrical demand in the next decade.