US sustainable grid solutions provider Energy Vault Holdings has won an order from Jupiter Power to create two battery storage projects in Texas and California totalling 220MWh.
Under the agreement, Energy Vault will supply equipment, engineering, procurement, construction, balance of plant services and the energy management software for two of Jupiter’s battery energy storage projects.
The projects include a 100MW battery energy storage system near Fort Stockton, Texas, which will provide energy and ancillary services to ERCOT.
A 10MW system in Carpinteria, California will provide grid services through participation in the CAISO Resource Adequacy programme as well as energy resiliency in Southern California.
The projects will provide critically needed dispatchable capacity to these electricity markets and are expected to be completed in 2023, Energy Vault said.
The systems will utilize Energy Vault Solutions’ (EVS) proprietary integration platform and powered by EVS’ innovative energy management software platform, which started development nine months ago in November 2021.
Energy Vault chief commercial officer Marco Terruzzin said: “With today’s inaugural EVS-enabled battery energy storage projects announcement supporting a market leader in storage infrastructure and analytics like Jupiter, we are delivering on our comprehensive energy storage solutions strategy introduced just nine months ago.
“We are seeing strong demand for our EVS-enabled energy storage solutions on a global basis due to the unique ability of our platform to integrate and deliver both short and long duration (EVx) energy storage technologies.”
Jupiter Power chief technology officer Michael Geier said: “Jupiter is pleased to be working with Energy Vault to expand our existing battery energy storage portfolio with these two new projects.
“As the largest developer and operator of battery energy storage projects on the ERCOT grid, we see a strong need to continue to execute innovative storage solutions to help relieve grid strain.
“We are also excited to be building our first project in California, where grid conditions continue to demonstrate a strong need for additional battery energy storage capacity.”
Jupiter currently has 654MWh of battery energy storage projects in operations or commissioning in Texas and more than 11 GW of additional projects in development in several target markets from California to Maine.