EDF pursues 20-MW battery storage project in Blair County, Pa.

October 6, 2015 Barry Cassell Generation

EDF Renewable Development Inc. has proposed a battery storage facility located in Blair County, Pa., that will have a total capability of 20 MW with 0 MW of this output being recognized by PJM Interconnection as capacity.

The proposed in-service date for this project is June 2016. This study does not imply a Pennsylvania Electric (Penelec) commitment to this in-service date, says a System Impact Study on the project from PJM. The study, dated September 2015, is needed to determine a plan, with approximate cost and construction time estimates, to connect the subject generation interconnection project to the PJM network at a location specified by EDF.

This project, under PJM queue #AA1-115, will interconnect with the Penelec transmission system at the Thirty-First Street 115-kV substation. Project AA1-115 was studied with a commercial probability of 100% using a Summer Peak 2018 case. A map in the study shows that this project is near the 38-MW Chestnut Flats Wind Farm.

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Barry Cassell is Chief Analyst for GenerationHub covering coal and emission controls issues, projects and policy. He has covered the coal and power generation industry for more than 24 years, beginning in November 2011 at GenerationHub and prior to that as editor of SNL Energy’s Coal Report. He was formerly with Coal Outlook for 15 years as the publication’s editor and contributing writer, and prior to that he was editor of Coal & Synfuels Technology and associate editor of The Energy Report. He has a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University.