Dominion Energy bags Virginia battery project

• Shands site is 15MW/62.8 MWg and also will come online in 2023

Dominion Energy has obtained an energy storage project in Virginia from East Point Energy.

The Shands Energy Storage project is 15.7 MW/62.8 megawatt hrs (MWh) and also will certainly be just one of the biggest standalone storage projects in Virginia when it becomes operational in 2023.

Located in Sussex County, Shands will certainly enhance local grid reliability.

Dominion Energy acquired Shands as part of the company's 2022 Clean Energy Ask For Proposals (RfP).

This is the 2nd project that East Point has actually marketed to Dominion as a result of this RfP procedure, the first being the 20MW Dry Bridge Energy Center project, which Dominion claimed will be the largest operational battery energy storage project in Virginia when it comes online later this year.

" Dominion Energy stays fully commited to delivering clean, dependable energy to our clients in Virginia. The firm is once more excited to collaborate with East Point Energy and introduce another utility-scale energy storage project," claimed Brandon Martin, Dominion's Manager of Business Development of Energy Storage.

" This project stands for another vital action in broadening the energy storage program within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

" The project will certainly continue to support the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA), as additional development of energy storage within the Commonwealth will certainly play an invaluable part in guaranteeing grid reliability throughout durations of high demand and durations of naturally periodic sustainable generation."

In July 2022, East Point announced that it will operate as an entirely possessed subsidiary of Equinor as well as will not only create, however additionally construct, very own and run energy storage projects.