Primus Power Corporation Wind Firming EnergyFarm Project Description
Aug. 15, 2013
U.S. Department of Energy
Primus Power is deploying a 25MW/75MWh EnergyFarmTM in the Modesto Irrigation District (MID) in California central valley that consists of an array of 250kW EnergyPods; plug-and-play zinc-flow battery modules and power electronics systems housed inside ISO shipping containers. The modular design and operation will be field tested at Pacific Gas & Electric with support from Sandia National Laboratories and the Electric Power Research Institute. The 25MW EnergyFarmTM will support MIDs efforts to balance increasing amounts of renewable generation and more efficiently manage its fleet of generating assets to meet peak loads. The system will likely be deployed incrementally in multiple substations and provide additional benefits such as local-area voltage stability and deferral of substation upgrades. EnergyFarmsTM are scalable and rapidly deployable, and can be scaled to greater than 100MW/300MWh in increments of 250kW/750kWh.
