New Hampshire Electric Cooperative Finalizes Standalone BESS

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) has announced the completion of its first utility scale energy storage project.  The 2.45MW standalone battery project was developed in partnership with Engie North America (ENGIE), a leading provider of energy storage services.

NHEC and NRCO began developing the project in 2018 and assisted NHEC with analysis of the economic value of the various use cases for the energy storage facility, helped negotiate the energy storage facilities contract, and helped see the project through to COD.

A full press release can be found here

Price Electric Cooperative Finalizes 100kWac Bifacial Solar Resource

Price Electric Cooperative has completed a solar project at its headquarters in Phillips Wisconsin.  The sites consists of a 100kWac fixed tilt bifacial solar array.  The solar array was developed using NRCO’s sCOOP program, which includes Price Electric as the Cooperative participating in the program, and RECORE LLC as the Tax Equity Investor (TEI).

NRCO helped Price Electric develop the site, conducted an RFP for an EPC (Carlson Electric), and managed the project from inception through final testing and to Commercial Operation (COD).  The completion of Price Electric’s solar site makes 54 small scale solar projects NRCO has helped its members develop since initially creating sCOOP in 2014.