US firm NEC Energy Solutions (NEC ES) is supplying a 2 MW, 3.9MWh GSS® grid energy storage solution for the Sterling Municipal Light Department (SMLD) of Sterling, Massachusetts.
By the end of this year, the battery-based energy storage system (ESS) will be working in New England and the first utility scale project in Massachusetts.
This project is capable of improving grid resilience against weather-related power outages, while providing enhanced clean energy usage and cost savings to the town.
Large amounts of PV solar have been installed by SMLD to reduce the utility’s carbon footprint.
NEC ES’s GSS® energy storage solution includes a single 53′ container housing 3.9MWh of lithium-ion batteries, a 2MW power conversion system, and proprietary NEC ES AEROS® controls software suite.