{"id":106862,"date":"2020-05-09T22:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T05:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/in-a-potential-big-win-for-renewable-energy-form-energy-gets-its-first-grid-scale-battery-installation"},"modified":"2020-05-09T22:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T05:05:54","slug":"in-a-potential-big-win-for-renewable-energy-form-energy-gets-its-first-grid-scale-battery-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/in-a-potential-big-win-for-renewable-energy-form-energy-gets-its-first-grid-scale-battery-installation","title":{"rendered":"In a potential big win for renewable energy, Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-potential-big-win-for-renewable-energy-form-energy-gets-its-first-grid-scale-battery-installation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/formenergy.com\/\">Form Energy<\/a>, which is developing what it calls ultra-low-cost, long-duration energy storage for the grid, has signed a contract with the Minnesota-based Great River Energy to develop a 1 megawatt, 150 megawatt hour pilot project.<\/p>\n<p>The second-largest electric utility in the Minnesota, Great River Energy\u2019s installation in Cambridge, Minn. will be the first commercial deployment of the venture-backed battery technology developer\u2019s long-duration energy storage technology.<\/p>\n<p>From Energy\u2019s battery system is significant for its ability to deliver 1 megawatt of power for 150 hours \u2014 a huge leap over the lithium ion batteries currently in use for most grid-scale storage projects. Those battery systems can last for two- to four-hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Form Energy, which is developing what it calls ultra-low-cost, long-duration energy storage for the grid, has signed a contract with the Minnesota-based Great River Energy to develop a 1 megawatt, 150 megawatt hour pilot project. The second-largest electric utility in the Minnesota, Great River Energy\u2019s installation in Cambridge, Minn. will be the first commercial deployment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}