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

Holden Municipal Light Department (HMLD) and Lightshift Energy, a leading energy storage project developer, owner and operator, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday to celebrate the completion of Lightshift’s newest battery storage project in Holden, Massachusetts, which will serve HMLD and its customers.

Lightshift Energy, a leading energy storage project developer, owner, and operator, today announced its participation in two initiatives that provide critical pathways to granular energy attribute and emissions accounting: the creation of the Power Emissions Certificates Alliance (PECA) and the signing of the United Nations 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact. Both initiatives are designed to help organizations meet their clean energy and climate targets by focusing on the link between time- and location-based energy use, clean energy generation, and carbon emissions.

In the latest episode of Public Power Now, Rory Jones, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Lightshift Energy, and Jason Viadero, Director of Engineering and Generation Assets at Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company, discuss a recently announced program under which MMWEC has selected Lightshift as its exclusive partner to deploy the state’s first jointly implemented fleet of grid-scale battery energy storage systems. Among other things, they detail how MMWEC and its member public power communities will benefit from the program.

The first-in-kind energy storage deployment will lower utility costs by approximately $200 million, while improving resilience and sustainability at community and state levels

Michael Herbert speaks with Latitude Media to talk about the  first-of-a-kind program announced this morning, energy storage company Lightshift Energy will deploy a fleet of grid-scale battery systems across at least nine Massachusetts utilities. 

Leveraging nearly two decades of experience at Invenergy, E.ON and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greskowiak brings valuable customer origination, strategic market development and analytical experience to Lightshift.

Lightshift Energy announced capital infusions totaling $100M from Greenbacker Capital Management LLC.