Abstract
Primus Power is deploying a 25MW/75MWh EnergyFarm™ 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 EnergyFarm™ will support MID’s 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. EnergyFarms TM are scalable and rapidly deployable, and can be scaled to greater than 100MW/300MWh in increments of 250kW/750kWh.Contact Information
Ronald Staubly
Project Manager
National Energy Technology Laboratory
3610 Collins Ferry Road
Morgantown, WV 26507-0880
304-285-4828
Ronald.Staubly@netl.doe.gov
Tom Stepien
Principal Investigator
Primus Power Corporation
3967 Trust Way
Hayward, CA 94545
(510) 342-7602
tom.stepien@primuspower.com
- Demonstration Projects
- Energy Storage
- Flow-Battery EnergyPods
- Power Electronics/Inverter
- Transformers
- Power costs reduced
- Renewable energy resource adoption accelerated
- Greenhouse gas emissions reduced
- Advanced battery manufacturing established in the U.S.