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The energy storage company is developing a 16-megawatt and 52-megawatt-hour system for a semiconductor manufacturing facility owned by GlobalFoundries. The system will cover up to 40% of the facility’s load, and it will be used for peak shaving: storing electricity when demand and costs are low, and discharging when demand peaks.

Danville Utilities and Lightshift Energy partner for a second time to bring up to $30M in energy cost savings to the local community while supporting regional load growth

PMLD is one of 40 municipal utilities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Tiny ones like Paxton can’t always afford to invest in substantial clean energy technology like battery energy storage systems (BESS), but does that mean the people who live there should be left behind in the clean energy transition while increasing grid demands strain their resilience?

Not if Lightshift Energy and the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC) have something to say about it.

The City Council for Danville, Va., a public power community, on Nov. 7 approved plans for the construction of an energy storage facility in the city.

Paxton Municipal Light Department (PMLD) and Lightshift Energy, a leading energy storage project developer, owner and operator, on Thursday hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil the battery storage project in Paxton, Massachusetts, which will bolster the grid for PMLD and its customers

The Town of Paxton has some brand new batteries.

“Their purpose is to save money for the community," Rory Jones said, "and indirectly reduce carbon emissions.”

Jones is a founder of Lightshift Energy. He said the energy storage units will save 25,000 tons of CO2 over the course of their lives.

In a recent Q&A with the American Public Power Association, Barry Tupper, general manager of Massachusetts public power utility Holden Municipal Light Department, detailed how the utility and its customers are expected to benefit from a recently completed battery storage project with Lightshift Energy.

Batteries can serve double-duty, shoring up the grid and providing backup to buildings when the power goes out. This project shows how.