General Electric is set to supply Con Edison Development with an 8 MWh lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Central Valley, California.
The BESS will be the first time US energy firm General Electric (GE) has introduced a lithium-ion battery solution to a project.
The system will provide 2MWs of power over a four-hour period, use GE’s Mark VIe-based plant control system, Brilliance MW Inverters, and packaged lithium-ion battery modules.
The installation will be New York based utility Con Edison’s first energy storage project.
The move is a shift in electro chemistry for GE after it scaled back production at its sodium-ion battery plant in Schenectady this January. The plant manufactured its Durathon battery.
In 2013, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced targets that call for California investor-owned utilities to procure 1.325 GW of cost-effective energy storage by 2020.
The site is expected to be operational within the next nine months.
