If built, the project would inject stored energy into the Railbelt grid when solar and wind power sag.
The Westinghouse project could provide enough stored energy to power about 2,000 homes for a month, said Meadow Bailey, a spokesperson with the Golden Valley Electric Association in Fairbanks.
She said the first phase focuses “on demonstrating the viability at utility-sized scale. Subsequent stages are focused on engineering, design and ultimately construction.” Golden Valley is currently looking to add 150 megawatts of wind power to its system, Bailey said. It plans to select an independent power producer that would build a new wind project near Fairbanks. The utility wouldThe energy storage system would be the largest, single-installation project of its kind in the U.S., providing 1.2 gigawatt-hours of power, Pennsylvania-based Westinghouse said in its statement.
“It’s enabling meaningful, long-term duration storage in ways that don’t require lithium or cadmium, these that need to be mined and create long-term disposal issues,” she said. “This is simple, locally sourced material, and that’s exciting as a broader strategy for energy storage in the future.”“Having an effective and affordable way to store energy has been the choke point for renewable energy technology,” Dunleavy said.
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