Elevate Renewables, a battery storage development company, has announced that its Innovative Inertia Project at the Devon Generating Station in Milford, Conn., has been selected to receive $27.5 million in federal funding under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program.
Elevate said it is focused on repurposing existing energy infrastructure as traditional thermal resources retire and intermittent and renewable resources increasingly become the predominant resources on the grid. The Innovative Inertia Project aims to reconfigure an existing fossil-fueled peaking unit and enable the deployment of a battery energy storage system to provide synchronous condensing and other essential grid services. The project will provide about 23 megavolt-amperes of reactive power for grid stabilization and up to 20 megawatts/80 megawatt-hours of energy resilience infrastructure available from a BESS capable of black-start grid restoration oper
