Industria Engineering to install 4-MW/8.2 MWh solar+storage project in Massachusetts

Massachusetts-based solar installation company Industria Engineering has placed an order for 8.2 MWh/3.5 MW of battery energy storage systems from Storage Power Systems (SPS) for a solar-plus-storage project in Grafton, Massachusetts, which should be commissioned in late Q4 2019. The project will enable excess energy from a 4-MW single-axis tracker, front-of-the-meter solar array to be stored in the two-hour battery. The ability to store this energy increases solar harvesting and shifts solar generation to peak loads on the substation, compared with a standalone solar project.