Enel Awarded 2.1 Million US Dollar Grants to Support Energy Storage Development in US
December 08 2017 - 11:22AM
Enel S.p.A. (“Enel”) announced today that two of its distributed
energy projects have been selected to receive grants, totalling
around 2.1 million US dollars, from the Advancing Commonwealth
Energy Storage (“ACES”) programme administered by the Massachusetts
Clean Energy Center (“MassCEC”). These are Enel’s first distributed
energy projects in Massachusetts, home to the Group’s North
American headquarters, and consist of a behind-the-meter micro-grid
and a battery storage system.
The grants, which are part of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts’ Energy Storage Initiative, are aimed at promoting
increased commercialisation and deployment of storage technologies
in Massachusetts.
“We are very glad to work with the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and our project partners to explore how storage
can best deliver long-term value to utilities and local
communities,” said Francesco Venturini, Head of
Enel X. “The convergence of renewable energy, distributed energy
resources, and demand response services is a prime opportunity to
provide valuable services to the grid and cut overall energy costs.
These two grants are a testament to the forward-thinking approach,
both in terms of technology and business model, that Enel together
with its project partners is taking to value for customers and the
energy system as a whole.”
Enel’s US renewables subsidiary Enel Green Power
North America, Inc. (“EGPNA”) partnered with the University of
Massachusetts Boston (“UMass Boston”) on a project proposal for a
behind-the-meter micro-grid which was awarded an 850,000 US dollar
grant. The project comprises a 0.5 MW/1.82 MWh lithium-ion energy
storage system integrated with a 0.5 MW solar photovoltaic facility
to be deployed at the University’s campus in Boston.
Enel’s US subsidiary EnerNOC was awarded 1.25
million US dollars, the maximum award granted by the ACES
programme, to support its proposal to deploy a 2 MW/4 MWh
lithium-ion energy storage system to be installed at the Acton
Boxborough Regional School District (“ABRSD”).
Both projects combine behind-the-meter demand
charge management and in front of the meter, demand response
applications, creating multiple revenue streams for the parties
involved, while also generating benefits for the grid in terms of
reliability and balancing.
The projects will be managed through the
DEN.OSTM software, developed by Enel’s US subsidiary Demand Energy
Networks, optimising project benefits across a variety of
applications, such as the management of facility demand and system
peak charges thus providing significant bill savings. At the same
time, the software will enable increased grid resiliency and
stabilization through the projects’ enrollment in the capacity,
energy and ancillary services markets of the regional transmission
organisation ISO New England.
In addition, the two projects will serve as
laboratories offering a variety of educational opportunities, such
as project demonstrations and educational tours, to both UMass
Boston and ABRSD.
These projects are in line with Enel’s growing
focus on providing customers with flexibility services including
demand response, storage and micro-grid solutions. Moreover, they
strengthen Enel’s energy storage capacity in the US and support the
company’s early move into the growing Massachusetts energy storage
market, which seeks to add 200 MWh of energy storage by 2020.
About
Enel
Enel is a multinational power company and a
leading integrated player in the global, power, gas and renewables
markets. It is Europe’s largest utility in terms of market
capitalization and figures among Europe’s leading power companies
in terms of installed capacity and reported EBITDA. The Group is
present in over 30 countries worldwide, producing energy with more
than 86 GW of managed capacity. Enel distributes electricity and
gas through a network of over 2 million kilometres, and with over
65 million business and household customers globally, the Group has
the largest customer base among European competitors. Enel’s
renewables arm Enel Green Power already manages around 40 GW of
wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and hydropower plants in Europe,
the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Enel, through EGPNA, is a leading owner and
operator of renewables facilities in North America with projects
operating and under development in 23 US states and two Canadian
provinces. EGPNA operates over 100 plants with a managed capacity
exceeding 3.6 GW of hydro, wind, geothermal, and solar energy. In
January 2017, Enel, through EGPNA, acquired the US-based company
specialized in intelligent software and energy storage systems
Demand Energy Networks, while in August it completed the
acquisition of EnerNOC, a leading provider of demand response and
energy management services for utility, commercial, institutional
and industrial customers. Finally, in October Enel, through
EnerNOC, acquired California-based eMotorWerks, a leading North
American supplier of JuiceBox electric vehicle (EV) charging
stations and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things
(IoT) platform for the smart management of EV charging and other
distributed energy storage facilities.
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