PJM terminates wholesale deal for 4-MW battery project in Illinois

June 21, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

PJM Interconnection on June 21 notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of the cancellation of an executed Wholesale Market Participation Agreement from 2015 with Grid Stability Systems LLC and interconnecting transmission owner Commonwealth Edison for a 4-MW battery project.

“The Grid Stability WMPA is being cancelled because Grid Stability has decided not to move forward with its project and will not participate in PJM’s markets,” said the notice.

This project was under PJM Queue Position #Z2-090. It covered the Black Hawk Battery project, to be located on Blackhawk Road in Winnebago County, Rockford, Illinois. Maximum Facility Output was 4 MW. The project was to be in commercial operation by Dec. 1 of this year.

Project contact information is: John Henderson, Partner, Grid Stability Systems LLC, 190 Frontage Road, Suite 522. Northfield, IL 60039.

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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.