Large-Scale Solutions

Ancillary services such as spinning reserve plays an important role in ensuring constant balance of production and demand in electric industry. Spinning reserve provides the grid operator who needs extra generation capacity on line to respond quickly to a major system disturbance such as loss of generator. Storage can provide ancillary services and generation capacity to provide energy as it is capable of providing governor response, regulation, and spinning reserve. Storage offers a way to manage the rate of wind ramping with reduced energy production loss. Large-scale storage can be deployed in location that is close to both offshore wind and large urban load centers where the net effect is to reduce transmission congestion. Large-scale storage offers a solution for both the demand matching and backup energy needs.