Vitality Toolbase has accomplished commissioning on Ventura Vitality’s five-site, 3.7-MWh vitality storage portfolio at important water services all through Ventura County, California. The methods of standalone vitality storage are comprised of Tesla Powerpacks and Megapacks managed by Acumen EMS software program and allow the end-users to have a dependable water supply within the case of an emergency. A majority of Ventura County is served by wells, and a few residents and farmers are left and not using a water provide when the world experiences an influence outage. This portfolio of methods, spanning from Santa Paula to Thousand Oaks, will now present backup energy to water pumps at their areas.
The portfolio of websites is enrolled in California’s Demand Response Public sale Mechanism program (DRAM), a pay-as-bid solicitation created to strengthen grid stability and synchronize the reliability demand response of utilities with CAISO, California’s grid operator. Acumen EMS supplied these grid companies by means of Leap, an vitality market entry supplier for distributed vitality assets. By way of the Ventura Vitality portfolio, Vitality Toolbase created a partnership with Leap, which can enable initiatives to take part in demand response and grid companies packages, increase income and support the state’s grid by means of a novel revenue-share mannequin.
“Leap is worked up to facilitate entry to vitality market income streams for this portfolio,” mentioned Jason Michaels, Chief Income Officer at Leap. “This collaboration will unlock further worth for Vitality Toolbase and Ventura Vitality to assist them fund this venture to bolster grid resilience and decrease carbon emissions for Ventura County.”
Enrolling within the DRAM program helps bolster California’s grid stability and compensate for demand-side assets, which embody vitality storage methods by curbing vitality when the grid is strained. This performance-based revenue-share mannequin construction will help in maximizing the income and help of the grid for future initiatives all through the state.
“As a Ventura County native, seeing the devastation of the Thomas Fireplace throughout the county was horrific. Understanding that these vitality storage methods paired with effectively pumps will assist firefighting and property safety sooner or later is one thing Ventura Vitality is extraordinarily happy with,” mentioned Clara Nagy McBane, Proprietor of Ventura Vitality. “By collaborating within the demand response packages enabled by means of Vitality Toolbase and Leap, Ventura Vitality’s portfolio is not going to solely be capable of assist the grid handle peak occasions to keep away from outages but additionally will enable Ventura Vitality to deploy extra of those doubtlessly life-saving initiatives throughout California.”
“Vitality Toolbase is particularly excited to be part of this venture that’s offering such a important service to the individuals of Ventura County,” mentioned Scott D’Ambrosio, VP of Gross sales at Vitality Toolbase. “Combining the backup energy to the effectively pumps, and Acumen EMS leveraging the DRAM program so as to add further worth, is one thing we’re proud to have the ability to do.”
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