Invenergy gets approval for 300MW solar, 165MW battery storage project in Wisconsin

• Wisconsin's Public Service Commission (PSC) has authorized the building of Invenergy's 300MW utility-scale solar farm, which is to be coupled with a 165MW battery energy storage space system (BESS), in Dane County.

The Koshkonong Solar Energy Center project will certainly be built by solar designer Invenergy with building and construction beginning this autumn as well as the project is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2024.

This is not the very first solar plus storage space project Invenergy is servicing in Wisconsin, with a 200MW solar PV and 110MW BESS in Kenosha County that was accepted in December 2020 and an additional one in Walworth and Rock Counties with 250MW of solar energy as well as 75MW of BESS awaiting approval.

"It is absolutely vital that the Commission remains to accept utility-scale projects such as this one. Our state's power energies are making some real strides, like investing in even more solar energy capacity and storage," said Chelsea Chandler, supervisor of Climate, Energy as well as Air Program at Clean Wisconsin.

Clean Wisconsin, who submitted professional testament for the project, stated the solar farm would have take advantage of the atmosphere by lowering phosphorous runoff in the waterways by transforming crop land to grassland for the solar PV project.

Earlier this year, Invenergy partnered with Lafayette Square to create a community-solar led joint venture, called Reactivate, with the goal to create 3GW of renewable capacity by 2030.

In January 2022, Invenergy obtained a US$ 3 billion investment from Blackstone which will aid speed up the build-out of solar PV projects.