Salt River Project, CMBlu Energy to Pilot Long Duration ESS...... 08/31/23....Pilots....Power eng..gffa......
Salt River Project and CMBlu Energy announced plans to deploy a pilot long-duration energy storage system in the Phoenix, Arizona area. CMBlu will build, own and operate the 5 MW, ten-hour duration project, named Desert Blume, on behalf of SRP at the utility’s Copper Crossing Energy and Research Center in Florence, Arizona.
The project is designed to store energy from Arizona’s abundant solar generation during the day and return that energy to the grid at night.
Construction is expected to begin in early 2025. SRP and CMBlu expect the pilot to be operational in December 2025. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) will support performance monitoring for the project.
In July, CMBlu announced the first customer deployment of its LDES system with Burgenland Energie in Austria. The company is also providing its system for a pilot in Milwaukee with WEC Energy.