Battery storage for more energy independence
Everett, looking towards the Mystic Generating Station.
Adapted fromRobert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com
As usual, Massachusetts is among those places seeking to strengthen its long-term economy by making itself more self-sufficient in energy. Consider that state officials are entering contract talks with four companies to build a big battery storage facility in Everett on, appropriately, an old Exxon oil-storage field. The facility would be used to store electrical energy when demand is low and release it when it’s high.
New England must move as fast as it can to reduce its energy dependence on the rest of the country and do it in partly by encouraging projects that don’t come under federal/Red State/fossil-fuel sector control – control that opens up the region to economic, political and environmental sabotage by Washington.
Inside a battery storage power plant at Schwerin,Germany, with modular rows of accumulators.