In Chattanooga, the Electric Power Board recently energized a giant battery as part of the national research to find the best way to make power grids more efficient.
The 100-kilowatt/400-kilowatt-hour vanadium redox battery has been installed alongside EPB’s field of solar power cells as part of a project to determine how a large-scale energy storage unit can be used with a smart grid to keep a consistent flow of energy.
EPB CEO David Wade states, “As it becomes possible to deploy large-scale battery storage throughout our system, I envision a time when we can further reduce the number of our customers impacted by power outages.”