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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…
Back to Newsroom SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 — A 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) from developer Available Power at a net-zero technology campus in Texas is expected to be online in mid-2024. The 100MW, two-hour system is being built on land leased from the GREENPORT International Airport and Technology Center near Austin, Texas. The lithium-ion…
Back to Newsroom AUGUST 30, 2022 — One of the US states currently deploying the largest amounts of grid-scale energy storage is Texas. Indeed, one energy sector CEO recently remarked that the state had “one of the fastest growing markets in the world for energy storage”. Figures published in a report by American Clean Power…