Big dreams for big batteries: Pennsylvania looks to jolt energy storage development
BATERIAS BIG Chegou à Pensilvânia - se ainda não estiver em forma física, então no crescente número de esforços para trazê -los aqui. Segurar o fórum foi uma das recomendações em um relatório encomendado pelo DEP sobre como determinar se o armazenamento de energia pode ser usado para resolver problemas ambientais e reforçar a confiabilidade da grade. A administração escreveu em agosto que, nos próximos dezenas de anos, 10 gigawatts de novo armazenamento de bateria em escala de utilidade serão adicionados à grade. Isso é 10 vezes o que estava no solo em 2019.
In late September, the state Department of Environmental Protection virtually assembled representatives from 85 companies and organizations for its first ever meeting of the Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium. Holding the forum was one of the recommendations in a report commissioned by the DEP on how to determine if energy storage can be used to solve environmental issues and bolster grid reliability.
Even without the gathering, the pipeline of projects seeking to put large-scale energy storage on the grid in Pennsylvania — and across the nation — is robust.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration wrote in August that over the next dozen years, 10 gigawatts of new utility-scale battery storage will be added to the grid. That’s 10 times what was on the ground in 2019.
"Esperamos que a relação entre energia solar e armazenamento de bateria mude nos Estados Unidos nos próximos três anos, porque a maioria dos projetos futuros planejados será co-localizada com a geração, em particular com as instalações solares", escreveu os analistas do rio. Ponto. Para comparação, existem apenas 50 megawatts de armazenamento da Pensilvânia na grade hoje. Está por trás de uma proposta de instalação de armazenamento de 290 megawatts no Condado de Elk, de acordo com dados do operador da grade de Nova York. Condado; Shelocta, no condado de Armstrong; e Gans em Fayette. A energia LS não retornou as chamadas do pós-gazeta. Corrente
Look no further than Brunot Island on the Ohio River for a case in point.
A developer has proposed installing a 20-megawatt solar array and a 40-MW battery storage facility near GenOn’s natural gas power plant there. For comparison, there are only 50 megawatts Pennsylvania storage on the grid today.
LS Power, a New York-based investor and operator, has put hundreds of megawatts of storage in the PJM Interconnection queue — a first step for developers to figure out how their projects would fit into the grid used to power homes and businesses. It is behind a 290 megawatt storage facility proposal in Elk County, according to data from the New York grid operator.
PJM’s queue doesn’t name the developers proposing projects, so it’s not clear who is proposing to put storage assets at the various natural gas power plants that LS Power has accumulated in Pennsylvania over the past several years, including in Springdale, Allegheny County; Shelocta, in Armstrong County; and Gans at Fayette. LS Power did not return calls from the Post-Gazette.
The company already operates what is considered to be the largest battery installation in the U.S. in California, a 250-megawatt facility that became operational in August 2020. It plans to build a 316-megawatt battery storage facility at one of its natural gas power plants in Queens.
Supply chain
O armazenamento de energia é um termo de guarda -chuva que inclui qualquer coisa, desde hidrelétricas bombadas até as baterias do seu carro. Pode ser descarga rápida ou lenta, longa duração ou curta, térmica, elétrica, química, física - você escolhe.
One participant in the DEP consortium suggested that repurposing abandoned oil wells for geothermal development could fit under the umbrella, although much of the discussion was about large batteries — the kind that could be invented, manufactured or installed in Pennsylvania.
Com os problemas da cadeia de suprimentos, o argumento foi feito de que, à medida que a indústria de armazenamento de energia cresce, a Pensilvânia faria solo fértil para suas sementes e suas flores. e está pesquisando um processo de fabricação para eletrodos para baterias de íons de lítio. A Eaton Corp. constrói componentes elétricos. A Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, em Warrendale, produz grandes sistemas de armazenamento de energia. Um de seus investidores é o arcelorMittal gigante de aço, que produzirá o ferro. A fábrica de bateria de zinco em Turtle Creek está a uma viagem de três horas, o CEO Joe Mastrangelo se gabou durante um painel virtual sobre armazenamento de energia na semana passada. Um espaço dentro do antigo campus de Westinghouse e 32 posições abertas precisará de algumas centenas em capacidade total, disse Mastrangelo. É um crédito fiscal de investimento de 10 anos para projetos de armazenamento independentes que cobrem 30% do custo do projeto. Cotas de estado para os utilitários comprarem uma certa porção de sua geração da energia solar e outros combustíveis de energia alternativa também moveu a agulha, e as partes interessadas montadas de DEP pediram que um mecanismo semelhante fosse considerado para armazenamento de energia. Alisando a frequência entregue ao equipamento elétrico. Ele pode preencher lacunas deixadas por fontes de energia renovável ou ser usado na arbitragem de preços - carregando energia barata nos horários de pico e descarregando durante o pico. Definido para clientes utilitários - abordou a questão do armazenamento de energia do utilitário no ano passado, quando colocou uma série de perguntas “como” e comentários convidados. 29 de novembro. Dê um choque de energia aqui. A próxima reunião do grupo é em 7 de dezembro.
Some of it is already here.
Pittsburgh-based coatings giant PPG sells a thermal coating for automotive batteries and is researching a manufacturing process for electrodes for lithium ion batteries. Eaton Corp. builds electrical components. Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc, in Warrendale, makes large energy storage systems.
Form Energy, a Massachusetts-based battery company co-founded by Aquion Energy alumnus Ted Wiley, is setting up a facility in Eighty Four.
It has developed an iron air battery capable of storing days worth of energy. One of its investors is the steel giant ArcelorMittal, which will produce the iron.
As happened with solar and wind, and oil and gas before, and coal before that, battery advocates are leaning heavily on the idea of energy independence underpinned by an American manufacturing base.
All but one of the suppliers to EOS Energy Enterprises’ zinc battery factory in Turtle Creek are within a three-hour drive, CEO Joe Mastrangelo boasted during a virtual panel on energy storage last week.
“This is critical for us,” he said, linking both the reliability of the supply chain and the grid to national security.
EOS, which now has 108 workers churning out batteries from a space inside the former Westinghouse campus and 32 open positions, will need a few hundred more at full capacity, Mr. Mastrangelo said.
“Having incentives to buy in America will help,” he said.
For now, one of the biggest incentives to ramp up energy storage is in the contentious federal budget bill. It’s a 10-year investment tax credit for stand-alone storage projects that covers 30% of the cost of the project.
Similar tax credits have been used to ramp up wind and solar development. State quotas for utilities to buy a certain portion of their generation from solar and other alternative energy fuels also moved the needle, and the DEP-assembled stakeholders asked that a similar mechanism should be considered for energy storage.
Many things to many people
Storage can function like energy generation, akin to a power plant, or as energy regulation, smoothing out the frequency delivered to electric equipment. It can fill in gaps left by renewable power sources or be used in price arbitrage — charging up on cheap power at off peak hours and discharging during the peak.
It’s a concept that wears many hats and, therefore, has attracted the attention of many regulators.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission — which regulates how rates are set for utility customers — took up the issue of utility energy storage last year when it posed a series of “how” questions and invited comments.
The PUC wanted to know whether storage belongs in the distribution architecture of a regulated utility and, if so, who should pay for it and how.
The comment period has been extended several times now and is scheduled to end on Nov. 29.
Valley Forge-based PJM Interconnection, the nonprofit grid operator for 13 states, including Pennsylvania, recently wrestled with how to categorize energy storage in the transmission system.
The DEP consortium agreed that all these agencies need to be brought in on whatever strategy Pennsylvania settles on to give energy storage a jolt here. The group’s next meeting is on Dec. 7.