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January 27, 2024

USA Today | This state is quickly becoming America's clean energy paradise. Here's how it's happening.

Hawaii pledged to be “Coal free by ’23,” and state law requires 100% clean energy in just 21 years. Attaining that goal came closer last month when an enormous 185-megawatt battery near Honolulu hummed into full operation.

January 18, 2024

Gorham Times | Largest Battery Facility in Maine Planned for Gorham

In a few months, Houston-based Plus Power LLC, is scheduled to begin construction on one of New England’s largest battery storage projects.

January 07, 2024

The Maine Monitor | Maine’s first giant battery project set for construction in Gorham

Construction is set to begin this spring in Gorham on one of New England’s largest battery storage projects, a preview of similar ventures that are seen as a missing link for optimizing the region’s growing fleet of solar and wind power plants.

October 17, 2023

S&P Global | Plus Power secures landmark $1.8B for US battery stations as 'tidal wave' nears

Amid a challenging high interest-rate environment, the fast-growing Houston-headquartered company closed financings with major lenders and investors to bring online 1.04 GW/2.76 GWh of lithium-ion battery capacity before peak power demand returns to Texas and the Southwest next summer.

September 12, 2023

The Texas Tribune | Plus Power secures landmark $1.8B for US battery stations as 'tidal wave' nears

On Wednesday night, minutes before the state’s grid operator went into emergency mode to make sure it would have enough power to meet high demand during another triple-digit day, batteries provided more electricity to Texas homes and businesses than ever before.

July 19, 2022

Maine Public Radio | Big batteries are quickly becoming part of Maine's electric grid

That’s a lot of numbers, but the takeaway is that the Megapacks hold a significant amount of juice, enough to power about 9,000 New England homes for two hours. That's the reason the batteries have been placed next to an existing substation that’s linked to Brookfield's East Millinocket dam.

February 11, 2021

Green Tech Media | “Plus Power Breaks Open New England Market for Massive Batteries”

San Francisco-based developer Plus Power won two bids in the latest capacity auction held by the New England ISO, which operates the transmission grid and competitive power markets in six northeastern states. That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand.

November 30, 2020

go Kapolei Magazine | “The Battery of our Future”

As Yoshimura said in July’s virtual town hall, “KES will end the use coal in Hawai’i, make the Hawaiian Electric grid more reliable, and allow the deployment of more renewable energy. It really is a ‘win-win-win’”.

September 18, 2020

Utility Dive | “Hawaiian Electric asks regulators to approve nearly 2 GWh storage, 300 MW solar contracts”

Plus Power is developing the standalone Kapolei Energy Storage (KES) project on Oahu. "With a commercial operation date of June 2022, the 185 MW KES project will help facilitate the retirement of the last coal plant in Hawaii," Allyson Sand, a developer with Plus Power, said in an email. The island's 180 MW coal plant, owned by AES, is set to retire in September 2022.

MAY 26, 2020

Green Tech Media | “Plus Power Enters Battery Big Leagues With Winning Project for Hawaiian Electric”

“Developer Plus Power’s 185-megawatt battery will shift solar energy and deliver grid services to allow Oahu’s last coal plant to retire.”