U.S. Dept. of Energy Selects California Energy Commission Long Duration Energy Storage Project to Strengthen Resiliency at Children’s Hospital – Team Members Include Faraday Microgrids and Nhu Energy
Part of a $325 million investment in long duration energy storage recently announced by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the Children’s Hospital Resilient Grid with Energy Storage (CHARGES) project aims to provide critical power backup for an acute care hospital and will provide resiliency in a region that is increasingly at-risk for significant power outages due to fires, storm surges, floods, extreme heat, and earthquakes. In collaboration with Faraday Microgrids, the project team will install a 34.4-megawatt hour battery system for the Valley Children’s Hospital, which is located in an underserved community. Nhu Energy will provide the microgrid digital operating technology to coordinate, control, and optimize the system, which will be capable of operating grid parallel, islanded in parallel with existing generation, or islanded grid-forming.
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