Marlborough and Foxboro, MA - December 7, 2017 - ENE Strategies, a division of Energy New England, LLC is proud to congratulate four of their clients in receiving $3.45 million dollars in state grants through the Baker-Polito Energy Storage Incentive, Advancing Commonwealth Energy Storage. These awards were made through a competitive process of applying for the grants and proposing projects that would be in-line with the Commonwealth's State of Charge report that was released late last year. There were 69 applications for various projects and 26 were awarded grants in a ceremony at UMASS Medical Marlborough Hospital.
Governor Charlie Baker, Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton and Department of Energy Resource Commissioner Judith Judson were present for the awarding ceremony and touted the raising of the grant money from the original $10 million to $20 million dollars, which would jump start the battery storage initiatives in the Commonwealth through these chosen projects.
The Braintree Electric Light Department received a grant of $700,000(covering 30% of their project) to provide a 2 MW Virtual Power Plant model at three of their substations helping them reduce costs to their customers. The project also provides a pilot for community storage as service model to help customers reduce their peak load.

The Reading Municipal Light Department received a grant of $1,000,000(covering 42% of their project) to provide a 5MW peak load reducing model, co-located at their substation with a 2.5 MW generator, creating a microgrid project model. This project is located in a highly constrained area within the ISO-NE network.

The Norwood Municipal Light Department, through a project sponsored by Next Era for a 1MW installation, received $500,000(covering 25% of their project) to provide a pilot program for a biotech facility to assist in reducing their operating costs on the electric side with peak demand and transmission capacity reduction and demand response opportunities. This type of project could be replicated throughout the Commonwealth.

The Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant received a grant of $1,250,000(covering 36% of their project) to provide a 1.5MW installation collocated with a gas generation plant and proposed solar array to investigate the benefits of these types of combined systems. The load management protocols for this project could be duplicated in other areas and projects in the Commonwealth.

President and CEO John Tzimorangas of ENE remarked, "This is a terrific opportunity the Baker-Polito administration and their vision for the energy future has provided to our clients and the other grant award recipients. The increase of the grant dollars from $10 to $20 million will provide additional projects and funding and allow different types of installations to be completed and reviewed to see how we can duplicate their successes throughout the Commonwealth, in line with our stated goals around energy."

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