HRC or member-contributedAs more battery storage facilities come online across the country, hydropower projects are being evaluated for the opportunities to pair with battery storage in different ways. Conservation organizations, federal laboratories, and the hydropower industry are all investigating this potential. Hear from Andy Fisk of the Connecticut River Conservancy and Jack West of Alabama Rives Alliance about their organizations’ advocacy efforts on the Connecticut and Tallapoosa Rivers, and learn how pairing these energy production and storage technologies may allow for better run-of-river operation as well as how this pairing may mitigate for hydro peaking.
Resources from the presentation:
- Presentation slides
- PNNL white paper Deployment of Energy Storage to Improve Environmental Outcomes of Hydropower
- Battery storage feasibility study conducted by Dartmouth
- Energy economics study conducted by Synapse
- Alabama Rivers Alliance study request for consideration of battery storage (BESS study request is last 4 pages of those consolidated comments and requests)
- 2019 paper cited in study request: “A new solution to mitigate hydropeaking? Batteries versus re-regulation services”
- FERC study determination (pp. B7-B10 relevant to BESS study request)
- Alabama Power’s Final BESS study (The report itself is only about 25 pgs. The file is large because it contains all comments, correspondence, etc.)
- Recent coverage of Form Energy’s iron-air batteries and possible project with Georgia Power
