Cornerstone wants to add battery storage at New Jersey solar facility

September 16, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

Cornerstone Power Holmdel LLC has proposed add a battery storage system to an existing solar generating facility located in Monmouth County, New Jersey, said a PJM Interconnection study on the project dated September 2016.

The company has requested an increase to the installed capability of 0.1 MW with 0.0 MW of this output being recognized by PJM as capacity. The installed facilities will have a total capability of 4.1 MW with 0 MW of this output being recognized by PJM as capacity.

This project, under PJM queue #AB2-066, will interconnect with the Jersey Central Power & Light (JCPL) system along a 12-kV feed from the Crawfords Corner substation.

The intent of this Combined Feasibility/System Impact Study, which is a mid-point in the PJM queue process, is 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 Cornerstone.

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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.
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