By Steven Allen Adams for The Weirton Daily Times
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Form Energy batteries will be put to the test in a new energy storage project announced for New England.
West Virginia state and federal officials praised an announcement made Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Energy for more than $2.2 billion in funding for electrical grid resiliency projects across the nation through the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in 2021.
“The Biden-Harris administration is investing in the most crucial component of the nation’s infrastructure, expanding and hardening the grid to allow more resilient, clean power to reach more households, and support the ongoing manufacturing boom — all while creating thousands of local jobs,” said Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in a statement.
According to a press release Thursday from the Department of Energy and Form Energy, approximately $389 million from the Grid Innovation Program will go for the Power Up New England project, which involves the building of a multi-day battery energy storage system in northern Maine. The multi-state project includes Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.