Written by: Karen Uhlenhuth
April 11, 2019
The rural electric
cooperatives are testing how the storage technology can help customers and
their systems.
The rural electric cooperatives are testing how the storage technology can help customers and their systems. Four Midwestern rural electric cooperatives are installing smart batteries in the homes of a few customers to test whether they can economically reduce
peak demand or provide other benefits to customers or their systems
Four Midwestern rural electric cooperatives are
installing smart batteries in the homes of a few customers to test whether they
can economically reduce peak demand or provide other benefits to customers or
their systems.
The co-ops came together through a professional
association and pooled their purchasing power to buy the batteries, which have
built-in management systems that allow them to, for example, monitor energy
use.
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