Flatiron Energy, a Boulder, Colorado-based firm that delivers energy storage with a focus on the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, presented the latest proposal to locate a battery storage facility, or BESS, in town to the town’s Economic Development Committee at its Nov. 18 meeting.
On Oct. 20, Flatiron hosted a two-hour open house at the Somerset Public Library in conjunction with Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a consulting firm, where the two companies listened to feedback, answered questions, and made use of community engagement to inform town residents — some curious, some apprehensive — about a proposal to transform the 38-acre site of the former Montaup Electric coal-fired power plant at the corner of Riverside Avenue and Stevens Road.
The project proposal, lauded as the “missing link” in a narrative of energy diversification, could become “state nexus” that could capably provide up to 168 megawatts of electricity.
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