Proposed Kenosha County solar farm could feature Wisconsin`s first utility-scale battery


Proposed Kenosha County solar farm could feature Wisconsin`s first utility-scale battery


The developer of a proposed solar farm in Iowa County is planning a second solar farm in Kenosha County that could feature the first utility-scale battery storage in Wisconsin.

Chicago-based Invenergy last week submitted an engineering plan for a 200-megawatt solar farm with a 50-megawatt battery component.

That’s larger than any battery currently deployed on the nation’s power grid and the first in the state of Wisconsin, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration...

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Ken Notes: This is very interesting but we are still on the wrong side of the curve for cost effective battery storage especially on this scale. I remember selling companies 10K hard drives that now are on a $4 chip. We need to plan for the future and make sound investments. Solar cells are now very affordable, storage is trending in the right direction but still pricy, and infrastructure (transmission lines) will always be expensive. When we had this problem in the computer industry we solved it by buying a lot of smaller computers (distributive processing) rather than trying to solve everything with larger systems. It worked out well back then....

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