Georgia Energy has recognized places for 500 MW of latest battery power storage programs (BESS) approved by the Georgia Public Service Fee (PSC) earlier this 12 months as a part of the corporate’s 2023 Built-in Useful resource Plan (IRP) Replace.
In response to the corporate’s most up-to-date submitting with the Georgia PSC, the portfolio of BESS sources proposed by Georgia Energy helps deal with the useful resource wants recognized within the 2023 IRP Replace.
Every of the proposed sources will encompass a four-hour length BESS, with a watch for dispatching electrical energy by the winter of 2026.
The brand new BESS services deliberate and beneath growth are:
- The 128 MW Robins BESS in Bibb County. This website is co-located with the prevailing photo voltaic facility adjoining to the Robins Air Drive Base and permits Georgia Energy to leverage current infrastructure, thereby eliminating the necessity to assemble new transmission generator step-up (GSU) project-level substations.
- The 49.5 MW Moody BESS in Lowndes County. Much like the Robins BESS mission, this mission is co-located with the prevailing photo voltaic facility adjoining to the Moody Air Drive Base and permits Georgia Energy to additionally leverage current infrastructure.
- The 57.5 MW Hammond BESS which is a standalone mission leveraging current infrastructure from the retired coal-fired Plant Hammond facility.
- The 265 MW McGrau Ford Website Part II BESS in Cherokee County. Given the prevailing website work, land acquisition and contracting for this mission, Georgia Energy will understand efficiencies in contracting and development by utilizing the identical development firm and company-owned land. As well as, the BESS’ preliminary design offers a chance for Georgia Energy to increase the mission stage substation and technology tie line slightly than assemble a brand new mission stage substation.
Along with the five hundred MW BESS initiatives from the 2023 IRP Replace, Georgia Energy is nearing completion on the 65 MW Mossy Department Battery Facility positioned in Talbot County. The ability was permitted within the 2019 IRP and will probably be Georgia Energy’s first BESS useful resource.
The corporate can also be growing the 265 MW McGrau Ford Part I BESS mission, permitted within the 2022 IRP, and expects it to enter service by the tip of 2026.
