Duke Energy has announced $30m plans to build two battery storage facilities in North Carolina totalling 13MW.
A 9MW lithium-ion battery system will be built at a Duke Energy substation in the Rock Hill community in Asheville.
Duke will also install a 4MW system at Hot Springs in Madison County and is considering building a solar farm to work in conjunction with the storage system.
Both projects are expected to be online in 2019.
The company said the two battery facilities are the first in a larger plan to deploy storage in the region.
Duke Energy vice president Robert Sipes said: “Duke Energy has experience with many battery storage projects around the nation.
“Western North Carolina is an ideal spot to use this technology to serve remote areas, or where extra resources are needed to help the existing energy infrastructure.”
Image: Duke will consider building a solar plant in conjunction with the storage system in Madison County (Duke Energy)
