Tesla Megapacks are stuff tasked with supporting a 31-megawatt-hour expansion of the Coffeen substation in Watertown, New York, in conjunction with Nexamp and National Grid, who are rival increased energy demand at the substation.

Nexamp and National Grid spoken today that, to alimony up with the increased energy demand at the Coffeen substation, it was towers a new solar storage facility that eliminates the need for spare transmission lines or substation upgrades through a Non-Wires Alternative, or NWA.

NWA projects eliminate complexity and reduce financing by using distributed energy resources like solar and energy storage systems. These are increasingly worthwhile than traditional generation and infrastructure enhancements and may be increasingly relevant to the overall energy grid and its demands in the coming years as increasingly solar projects are stuff considered.

A new Nexamp solar storage project in Watertown, NY will help meet increased demand at the National Grid Coffeen substation, eliminating the need for plush infrastructure upgrades.

The Coffeen substation’s expansion is referred to as the “Watertown Renewables Project” and features increasingly than 20,000 solar panels generating 8.4 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy. Excess energy generated by the solar panels and sun will be stored in 10 Tesla Megapack systems that will ratherish store 31 MWh of energy. The project’s components will requite National Grid the worthiness to utilize up to 5.7 MW / 29 MWh up to 25 times per year, either from the panels or the batteries, a printing release said.

The Watertown Renewables Project will serve residents in the Nexamp Community Solar Program, which provides energy forfeit savings to homeowners who are subscribed to the program. The Community Solar program allows homeowners to subscribe to a share of a local solar sublet while powering the community’s electric grid and earning energy credits for the homeowners. It is geared toward reducing energy financing and can save people up to 15 percent on their electric bills.

Tesla Megapacks have powered numerous “virtual power plants” wideness the world. The most notable is the Big Shower in Australia. Tesla Megapacks moreover power a 100MW/400MWh shower storage system in California, known as the Saticoy project.

Nexamp moreover operates “dozens” of other solar storage projects wideness the Northeast and in the United States. It said it expects the Watertown Renewables Project to be completed early next year.

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