Available Power, Linxon team up for 100-MW BESS project in Texas

• United States battery power storage systems designer Available Power has actually chosen design firm Linxon for the building and construction of the 100-MW/200-MWh Greenport battery energy storage system (BESS) in Austin, Texas.

The celebrations have actually signed an exclusivity agreement on the lithium-ion, front-of-the-meter site which is expected to be finished by the initial quarter of 2025, according to a press release.

The project scope includes the design, construction, setup as well as testing of all equipment, including a 345/34.5-kV, 130 MVA step-up power transformer, 345-kV AIS equipment, battery rooms, inverter skid with coupling transformer, inverter control system/EMS and terminal auxiliary supply system.

Available Power shut an offer to establish the BESS to support the Greenport International Airport and Technology Center near Austin in September 2022. The firm will certainly lease land to develop the facility, which will certainly provide a combination of grid security services to the Texas ERCOT market and also support for the local utility system.

Linxon, a joint venture of Canadian project monitoring business SNC-Lavalin Group Inc and also Swiss-based Hitachi Power, supplies engineering, procurement, monitoring and also building services for the execution of huge AC power substations.

The new exclusivity agreement improves an existing teamwork in between Linxon as well as Available Power. At the beginning of the year, they introduced a strategic collaboration for 1 GW of distributed energy storage projects in the Texas ERCOT market.