Consumers Energy Collaborates With Sunverge for a Distributed Battery Storage Pilot
October 23 2019 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
Consumers Energy’s residential battery storage
pilot program is utilizing the Sunverge real-time DER Control and
Aggregation Platform to test and measure how aggregated battery
storage can offer benefits to Michigan’s electric grid and utility
customers.
Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest energy provider, and
Sunverge, the provider of an industry-leading Distributed Energy
Resource (DER) control and aggregation platform, today announced
their collaboration to leverage Sunverge’s real-time control,
aggregation and orchestration platform with Sunverge Energy Storage
technology for a Consumers Energy residential battery storage
pilot.
“We are conducting this pilot to test and measure how aggregated
battery storage may have the potential to offer benefits to
Michigan’s electric grid and our customers,” said Ryan Kiley,
executive director of product development for Consumers Energy.
“The Sunverge platform’s ability to co-optimize grid services is
key to our decision to work with them. In this pilot, we are
testing to understand the different values that batteries could
provide to the overall grid, such as potential investment deferral,
resiliency and reliability, while also providing backup of critical
loads for pilot participants.”
Sunverge worked with Consumers Energy to evaluate the energy
provider’s distribution circuits and identify grid locations
suitable to test the potential benefits and value from behind the
meter battery storage. Consumers Energy used this analysis to
select a circuit in Michigan’s Grand Rapids area to conduct the
pilot.
“We are excited to be working with the Consumers Energy team to
help them better understand how they may be able to leverage
aggregated and orchestrated behind-the-meter storage to provide an
overall grid benefit and support their goal of generating 40% of
their energy from renewable sources by 2040,” said Martin Milani,
CEO of Sunverge.
Consumers Energy is working to modernize Michigan’s electric
grid and develop clean energy across the state. In January, the
company dedicated its first combined rooftop solar array and
battery storage system in the Circuit West energy district of Grand
Rapids. Last September, the company began operation of the Parkview
Battery Project, a 1 MW battery located at Western Michigan
University.
About Sunverge Energy
Sunverge Energy provides the leading open dynamic platform for
Virtual Power Plants (VPP), a grid-aware and dynamic power source
built from the aggregation of behind-the-meter DERs (distributed
energy resources). The Sunverge VPP platform is unique in providing
dynamic co-optimization of services on both sides of the meter,
helping customers with intelligent management of their own
renewable energy generation and utilities with greater flexibility
in managing their infrastructure investments, reducing generation
costs, increasing system reliability, and meeting their renewable
energy goals. Together with the Sunverge Infinity edge controller,
the Sunverge VPP platform provides intelligent dynamic near
real-time control over decentralized energy resources that is
efficient, reliable, and responsive to utilities and their
customers. For more information please visit
http://www.sunverge.com/
About Consumers Energy
Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest energy provider, is the
principal subsidiary of CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS), providing natural
gas and electricity to 6.7 million of the state’s 10 million
residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.
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Antenna Group for Sunverge sunverge@antennagroup.com (415)
712-1417
Brian Wheeler, Consumers Energy 517-788-2394
brian.wheeler@cmsenergy.com
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