TVA will set up a 40-MWh lithium-ion energy storage system

• The Tennessee Valley Authority will certainly be installing its first owned and run energy storage space system near a commercial complex in Vonore, Tennessee, about 35 miles southwest of Knoxville.

" TVA is constructing the energy grid of the future," claimed Senior Manager Dale Harris, that leads research and development for TVA. "This pilot project will certainly aid us to introduce and also adopt new innovations that will provide companies clean, inexpensive, trustworthy power while helping them fulfill their sustainability objectives."

Referred to as the Vonore Battery Energy Storage System, the project will certainly utilize 40 MWh of lithium-ion batteries. When the facility is functional in 2022, the batteries will certainly give top quality power to regional commercial consumers served by Loudoun Utilities Board. The Vonore BESS will boost the high quality of electric service offered to regional manufacturing facilities without developing added transmission lines.

The Vonore BESS will certainly also work as a test bed as TVA prepares to satisfy future energy demands. The Vonore BESS will certainly be TVA's initial battery to go online, but not the only grid-scale storage system that TVA will certainly make use of. In February, TVA introduced a solar project in Lowndes County, Mississippi, for its Green Invest programs that will consist of 200 MWh of battery energy storage.

Both battery storage space projects are part of the 2019 TVA Integrated Resource Plan, a thorough study that shapes just how TVA will supply low-cost, trusted and clean power for the next 20 years. The IRP requires adding up to 5 GW of energy storage capacity with 2038.

" TVA engineers, scientists and technicians are consistently dealing with our market companions to form the future of the energy industry as well as power the lasting financial health and wellness of our seven-state area," said Dr. Joe Hoagland, vice president, TVA Innovation and Research. "We are establishing and also purchasing the most up to date and also finest modern technologies to ensure the stable flow of dependable and also tidy power as we build out the nation's premier power system."