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Back to Newsroom Jan 15, 2025 — GridStor, a developer and operator of utility-scale battery energy storage systems, announced today that it has acquired a battery storage project in Oklahoma, totaling 200 MW / 400 MWh to be developed in two phases, from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES). GridStor’s acquisition and plan to construct battery…
Back to Newsroom Oct 5, 2024 — Standalone storage developer Black Mountain Energy Storage has pivoted its development expertise to SPP and MISO as its home market of ERCOT has continued to get over-saturated. BMES presently has over a 1 GW of storage projects collectively across both grid operators and both regions offer attractive attributes…
Back to Newsroom Aug 26, 2024 — Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES) is proud to announce the successful closure of the Apache Hill project with Vitis Energy on July 24th. Vitis Energy, a company launched in 2022, is actively pursuing ownership of solar, battery, and hydrogen-ready power plants. The Apache Hill project, located in Hood…
Back to Newsroom October 10, 2023 (Voltility) — Equinor-owned energy storage developer East Point Energy has acquired a 1 00MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES) in Cameron County, Texas. East Point-owned Citrus Flatts Energy Center, LLC filed an Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Standard Generation Interconnection Agreement (SGIA)…
Back to Newsroom September 28, 2023 (Energy Storage News) — Developer Black Mountain Energy Storage has won approval from the City of Milwaukee for a battery storage project which will be the biggest in the US state of Wisconsin so far. Following a meeting on 25 September, the City Plan Commission of Milwaukee made a resolution giving…
Back to Newsroom May 31, 2023 (Reuters) — BlackRock, Korea’s SK, Switzerland’s UBS and other companies are chasing an investment boom in battery storage plants in Texas, lured by the prospect of earning double-digit returns from the power grid problems plaguing the state, according to project owners, developers and suppliers. Projects coming online are generating…
Back to Newsroom Apr 20, 2023 — A $100 million, 100-megawatt battery storage plant geared to charge as many as 50,000 homes during a power outage is set to open off about 6 acres of farmland near Valley International Airport. But officials are holding off on granting a Colorado company a special permit to open…
Back to Newsroom Apr 20, 2023 — Black Mountain, a privately-held energy and natural resources company, wants to sell its division for power-storage projects amid soaring demand for battery installations used to help stabilize electricity grids. Austin-based Black Mountain Energy Storage has a pipeline of 32 projects projected to produce 6.4 gigawatts of battery power…
Back to Newsroom Jan 25, 2023 — Investment firms Castlelake and Gore Street Capital have acquired respective battery storage projects in the ERCOT, Texas market totalling nearly 600MW of storage capacity. UK investor Gore Street Capital, through its Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), has acquired a 75MW/150MWh early-stage battery storage project in the Lone…
Back to Newsroom Jan 24, 2023 — Peregrine Energy Solutions LLC, a recently established integrated and multi-technology clean energy platform with a focus on utility scale energy storage, today announced it will develop two mid-stage energy storage assets in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market. The assets were acquired from Black Mountain Energy Storage by…